FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20463

MEMORANDUM

TO:

FROM:

DATE: 

SUBJECT: 

The Commission 

Office of the Commission Secretary VFV 

July 18, 2022

AO 2022-14 (Google LLC) 432 individual 

comments

Attached are 432 individual comments on AO 2022-14 (Google LLC).

Attachment
From: Erik Oberg

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 — Please Deny Google"s Request

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:06:35 PM

Hello,

As a Gmail user, my inbox has been plagued with countless campaign emails soliciting

donations, but are themselves unsolicited. Not only are they unsolicited, they are also so

wildly hyperbolic as to be recklessly irresponsible and often highly predatory on people's fears

or biases—and their finances. Information science is my academic and professional field of

expertise, affording me the time and tools to evaluate such emails with ease and speed, but the

vast majority of people do not work and live in this field and may not be as prepared to judge

these messages. Even if this were not the case, however, users should have to opt into such

barrages rather than the other way around.

By far the most egregious examples have been emails I've inexplicably received from PACs

associated with Donald Trump. The extreme rhetoric bounces neurotically between threats of

the inevitable destruction of America if email recipients do not give generously enough, to the

other tonal end of promising prizes and elite-sounding (but almost certainly meaningless)

status and memberships, almost always paired with animated imagery of a timer ticking down

to pressure recipients into acting before thinking. This would be disturbing enough if they

weren't also written in such a way as to lead recipients to think that, not only are the emails

written personally by Trump or members of his family, but that they are also written

specifically and exclusively to the email recipient as an individual. Additionally, there is a

history of these emails being very likely fraudulent in identifying one use/destination of

donated funds in emails and then funnelling the money elsewhere

(https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/1104648634/january-6-panel-trump-campaign-fundraisemisled-donors-election-lies), including organizers of the January 6th coup attempt

(https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/trumps-political-operation-continued-to-steerdonor-money-to-firm-involved-in-the-jan-6-rally/), and it appears that this pattern is

continuing in campaign emails to this day

(https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/06/26/trump-moved-more-than-1-millionfrom-his-political-groups-to-his-private-business-after-losing-the-election/).

Not only do I have elderly friends and family susceptible to these solicitations—likely

assuming that if they are showing up in their inboxes that they must have signed up for them at

some point prior—I am also a public librarian, and I see every day the aftermath of the most

vulnerable in my community being preyed upon for their underdeveloped

information/technology literacy. These people are not merely lazy or unintelligent as some

might argue to dismiss these concerns, and they are instead simply elderly, impoverished, or

otherwise marginalized, which are all groups that have always been primary targets for

exploitation and who deserve proactive measures against their exploitation (more than 50% of

the vast sums raised by Trump came from

retirees: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/more-than-half-money-giventrumps-pac-was-retirees/). Emails from Trump-affiliated PACs—however more egregious

than others—are still by no means the only offenders though, and singling them out would be

unfair. For that reason, the only sensible action is to be strict on all such emails, regardless of

political affiliation, and put control back in the hands of users to decide for themselves if they

want to opt in to receive these emails in first place rather than being forced to constantly
unsubscribe from emails or manually mark them as spam over and over.

Thank you,

Erik Oberg
From: C. Bonura

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 (Google LLC) - NO to campaign ad pilot program

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:18:15 PM

Dear FEC representatives,

The application should be denied. I believe there is a reasonable expectation that any

mass mailings that user did not specifically sign up for should be directed to a spam

filter. I think that allowing unasked-for political mail is in no way deserving of special

exemption. This will just create more annoyance for the owners and provide no

benefit to the political discourse of this country.

Respectfully,

Cynthia Bonura
From: asphalt askew.0u@icloud.com

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 (Google LLC) - No to Campaign ad pilot program

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:22:24 PM

I strongly urge you to deny Google’s request to send campaign ads straight through to user email inboxes, thereby

avoiding spam filters.

0) If it’s a Google proposal, odds are good it will only benefit Google.

1) Google has proven itself to be malevolent in myriad avenues including politics.

2) People can subscribe to campaign newsletters. This should not be forced upon people who a) aren’t interested, b)

politically incompatible with the message.

3) Cybercriminals will undoubtedly game the system, asking for cash, or perhaps injecting malware

4) Google is politically biased. At least 3 out of 4, and likely 9 out of 10 only donate to liberal causes. Republicans

and conservatives will be sidelined.

5) Receiving unsolicited spam - even from sides with which one agrees - can have a detrimental effect. It’s like

getting unsolicited text messages from candidates nearing an election. It’s a big turn-off.

6) I, like the majority of Americans, don’t donate to political candidates. Unsolicited spam from them will ensure

others don’t either.

- Rich
From: Andrew Montgomery

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 (Google LLC)

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:33:43 PM

This is a terrible idea. Please deny this request.

It is entirely within the capabilities of political campaigns to produce and send email

campaigns of sufficient quality to avoid spam filters – just like every other bulk sender. They

deserve no special treatment.

It is wrong and unnecessary for the public to suffer when a political campaign sends bulk

email that is indistinguishable from spam.

Spam filtering is a critical and complex service.

Hobbling it must not be the answer.

On July 6, the Commission made public an advisory opinion request by Google.

The requestor asks whether it may provide a free and non-partisan pilot program

to test certain design features in its email product to authorized candidate

committees, political party committees, and leadership political action

committees. The Commission will accept written comments on the request during

the 10-day period following the publication of the request (no later than July 11)

and must issue a response no later than 60 days after the receipt of the complete

advisory opinion request, that is, by August 30, 2022.
From: Nishant Kheterpal

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 Comment

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:05:21 PM

Political emails should remain part of regular spam filters - they should not be given a special

bypass. Allowing politicians to degrade the email usefulness of Americans because of cries of

"political bias" is absurd. Political committees should not bypass spam filters and should not

deliver political emails to the primary inboxes of Gmail users by default.

Thanks,

Nishant Kheterpal
From: Mike Hommel

To: AO

Subject: AOR 2022-14

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:26:45 PM

If I don't sign up for any political mail, I still get added to dozens if not hundreds of lists, one

after another, as each one shares mailing lists. This is absolutely spam - unsolicited email -

because I never opted in to any of them. They add me based on political records rather than

my actual request. Every couple of months I go through and unsubscribe from all the ones I

don't want (around 30-40 different campaigns, with about 5 I choose to receive), and within

that next couple of months, I have been added back to all those lists automatically.

There absolutely should not be an elevation of political mail above the rules of spam. In fact, it

should work the other way around - it should be illegal to add someone to a mailing list

without their permission.

-- 

Mike Hommel

Hamumu Games, Inc.

http://hamumu.com
From: Bryan Fagan

To: AO

Subject: Comment on Advisory Opinion Request (Google LLC) on 2 U.S.C. § 30108 of the Federal Election Campaign Act

of 1971

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:39:49 PM

Dear Federal Election Commission:

I am writing to ask you not to allow Google to allow emails from candidate committees,

political party committees, and leadership political action committees to avoid spam folders.

This absolutely would be a financial boon given to Google to these political actors, akin to

donations to the political groups. These emails ask for money, just like any commercial email,

and giving them a pathway to more eyes that are connected to more wallets is absolutely a

contribution to these political groups. It is not for me to speculate why Google would offer this

advantage to a species of email that is frequently inaccurate and increasingly vituperative, but

as we have seen in past elections, even free gifts from technology companies can have

outsized and unbalanced effects on the elections themselves. 

One might also note that, given what the hearings of the January 6 Committee have revealed,

allowing political emails to override spam filters may promote -- or encourage -- fraud,

especially of vulnerable populations.

On a personal note, I see no reason why a politician asking for money should be privileged

over charities asking for money or even Walmart asking for my money. It's my spam filter; I

should get to decide what gets caught in it. But you're the FEC; spam filters, in and of

themselves, are probably not your concern.

Thank you for your diligence on this matter.

Sincerely, 

Bryan D. Fagan

From: Joyce

To: AO

Subject: Comments on AO 2022-14

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:08:51 AM

I write in opposition to this request.

Freedom of political speech does not impose an obligation on any citizen to listen to all political speech. I have a

right to activate a spam filter which filters political speech from my inbasket so I don't have to manually delete them

all.

Most of the digital political messages are attack ads against other candidates, not information about a candidates

positions and conviction. They spread misinformation and fear. They do not deserve special treatment. The

identities of the senders are hidden through the use of generically named ad hoc committees and PACs.

Please deny Google's request to permit spam on its platform by federally registered political committees.

Sincerely,

Joyce van Berkel
From: Shawn Sheller

To: AO

Subject: Di not relax Google filter requirements

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:31:26 PM

I am writing because I do not support Google's request to relax the current rules and

standards for political fundraising and advocacy as it relates to accessing my email.

I was extremely alarmed at the short. For public comment that was initially published

I appreciate that it has been extended.

I am very interested in hearing a draft response from your commission in regards to

this proposal during this public comment time as well.

Thank you

Shawn sheller

Washington State voter and concerned citizen who is seeking that you do not expand

Access or loosen the requirements for political advertising and fundraising in regards

to email or anything else..

From: Bert Mclean

To: AO

Subject: Draft AO 2022-14 (GOOGLE LLC)

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:02:23 PM

VIA E-MAIL: ao@fec.gov

Office of the Commission Secretary Federal Election Commission

1050 First Street, NE

Washington, DC 20463

July 11, 2022

Re: Comment Re: Draft AO 2022-14 (GOOGLE LLC)

I am asking that the Federal Election Commission reject Google Inc.’s request to prevent its customers from putting

spam protections on political emails.

Given that four Attorneys General are investigating fraudulent and misleading political fundraising practices, now is

not the time for the FEC to make it easier for political fundraisers to evade spam protections and send unwanted emails to every Gmail user.

I receive an incredible number of fundraising emails and texts from politicans across the country and all parties.

Unsubscribing just doesn’t stop them. I find political fundraising e-mails overwhelming, annoying, and inescapable,

and the FEC shouldn’t be doing anything to make it easier for unscrupulous fundraisers to send people unwanted emails. Spam filters should maximize collection of these unwanted emails and not tailor or otherwise aide these

spammers under the guise of free speech or to make more money. All political spam should only be allowed with a

specific opt in by the recipient. sale of email addresses should be banned unless specifically allowed by the

recipient.

Disallow any google or alphabet requests for exceptions. REDUCE ADS. No one that I know wants this junk.

Bert Mclean
From: Rosa Guzman

To: AO

Subject: FEC. GMAIL

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:23:48 PM

Sometimes, we don’t learn. Why would you think, why would more of the same make a bad situation better? We

don’t seem to be able to undo mistakes that are clearly not good for our society. How long has it been obvious that

there seems to be more anguish over creating guardrails and laws to punish bad behavior than allowing horrible

things to be put on social media that have negative impact on everyone.

No more.

Rosa Jordan-Guzman

Sent from my iPhone
From: Ken Horkavy

To: AO

Subject: GMAIL - GOOGLE POLITICAL SPAM

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:49:54 PM

I am writing to state my strong OPPOSITION to allowing google to do 'political spam' or

change the spam rules in any way for politicians.

People running for office should be held to a HIGHER standard than businesses in the first

place. NO SPAM OF ANY KIND.

They should not be allowed to TEXT either, but they seem to be getting away with that

since 2016 without consequences.

Ken Horkavy
From: Kathie Brown

To: AO

Subject: Gmail and Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:55:07 PM

As you are aware social media has contributed to the polarization that exists in this country.

Allowing political spam on Gmail is one contributor to that problem. Please require Gmail to prohibit

political spam.

Thank you!

Kathie Brown

Hudson, OH

Sent from Mail for Windows
From: Jonathan Rubin

To: AO

Subject: Gmail and political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:51:51 AM

The idea of making the force multiplier of the Internet to become an even more efficient tool

for disinfirmation, scams and hacks is anathema to me. Email subscribers are already

inundated with political TV ads, texts, robo calls, phone calls, snail mail, AND email.

How would it pissibly serve the public in general and gmail users in particular, by increasing

the quantity of (alleged) legitimate requests for donations? It widens an already sigificant

attack platform.

If the option to increase the volumous attempts to political email SPAM is to exist, it must be

disablef by default. It must be clearly requested and easily and quckly denied, with no possible

way to bypass or obfuscate the default denial of increasing the SPAM.

Jonathan Rubin

Schaumburg, IL
From: V. Davis

To: AO

Subject: gmail and Political SPAM

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:20:15 PM

Please consider preventing gmail from allowing political spam to be freely distributed

throughout personal mailboxes. Most of what is out there does not clearly and simply address

important national, international, or humanitarian concerns such as poverty, disease,

education, or international conflicts.

Instead it promotes, quotes, and spreads various biased and politically-based statements/stories

that further confuse and/or misinform voters. In this day and age we readers/voters really need

as much "Truth" as we can get so we can do our best to our best to provide a peaceful and

habitable world for our children and their children and th.......

Thank you,

Vicki Davis
From: joyfredi@aol.com

To: AO

Subject: GMail and Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:15:03 PM

To Whom It May Concern,

Please stop gmail from spreading more hate. The country and world do not need more death and

destruction to deal with. This practice is not helping any one maybe even your own family in the future

since nobody is really safe at this time any more.

Thank you.
From: Coreen Marroquin

To: AO

Subject: Gmail Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:23:06 PM

Please do NOT allow Gmail or any other entity to post, mail, endorse, or promote disinformation, misinformation,

or spam to pollute our political discourse. Such action will not only muddy the waters even more than is already

occurring, but add to the out-of-control amounts of spam and junk emails already overwhelming the public. It’s

difficult enough to separate the truth from lies these days without you assisting and adding to the confusion.

Thank you,

Coreen Marroquin

Sent from my iPhone
From: Simon Maybury

To: AO

Subject: GMail Political Spam Nonsense

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:01:27 PM

Dear Sir/Madam,

I write to object to any allowance of political spam emails. My primary interface with the world is through email,

and I already receive 100 emails/day from candidates with a valid reason to send, and who also cease when I

unsubscribe.

Yahoo does a creditable job assigning non-political junk to my junk folder. I expect it will not be so discerning with

political email, even from the Insurrectionist Party.

All mail server will waste uptime and energy handling junk email. This will raise global temperature and you will

be responsible for this, and partially for the consequent megadeaths over the next 30 years.

Allowing uninvited email from the Insurrectionist Party is treason, in my world. So don’t do it.

Yours faithfully

Simon Maybury
From: B J Wieland-Doucet

To: AO

Subject: GMAIL Political Spam Proposal

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:27:28 PM

Good day to you,

I am writing to you to express my horror that my GMAIL account could be even more

inundated with political garbage. 

I receive at least 50 - 75 emails from various candidates & parties wanting money, votes or

surveys. To allow Google GMAIL server(s) to take even MORE of my time wading thru their

nonsense is untenable.

PLEASE, for the sake of all our sanity & precious free time, keep GMAIL from spamming us

even more.

Thank you for your time & all you have to deal with.

Respectfully,

Barbara Wieland-Doucet

1celticwomyn@gmail.com
From: rnmfowler@aol.com

To: AO

Subject: GMail political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:30:41 PM

We get 30-50 political spam ads already. Please don't make it easier for even more unwanted spam ads.

Bob Fowler

Chesterfield, MO 63017
From: Ann Wigely

To: AO

Subject: Gmail request to allow political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:08:49 PM

To Whom It May Concern -

Gmail is a tool that has become widely used in both business and personal communication. I

find it difficult to understand how my email is exposed to spam and Phishing efforts. I recently

had my bank account accessed by fraud - privacy is diminishing in our technological age.

With every election more and more attempts are made to contact me and everyone else - it's

difficult enough to keep my privacy and keep the spam out of the mailbox. Please deny the

effort by Gmail to remove restrictions. Perhaps it might be time to find ways to protect our

virtual privacy and stop spam and illegal access to our personal information. Gmail has no

basis for saying this would make users of it's product better - rather the reverse is true - it will

clog our already overflowing mailboxes with unsolicited appeals.

Thank you,

Ann Wigely

Denver, CO
From: Craig Schulz

To: AO

Subject: Gmail spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:38:18 PM

Please stop gmail from allowing political spam.

Thank you!!
From: Roy ----

To: AO

Subject: Gmail spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:52:36 PM

We are already inundated with spam, we do not need gmail to spread this virus any

further.
From: Don Hoffman

To: AO

Subject: gmail spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:22:25 PM

Stop allowing spam from gmail

Sent from my iPhone
From: Andrew Bergman

To: AO

Subject: Gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:02:57 PM

Please do not authorize Gmail to permit political campaign material. This is a non-partisan

safeguard for all Americans. We are subject to enough political propaganda through other

sources. Leave our email as a safe place free of unsolicited political advertising. Please.

Sincerely,

Andrew Bergman
From: Penny Holliday

To: AO

Subject: Gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:16:29 PM

I do not think allowing more spam into our lives is a good idea! And I believe, as many of my

family and friends do, that by allowing political spam it would be unfair to one party over

another depending solely on their fundraising and ability to launch these ads. Please do NOT

allow this!

From: Bill Rice

To: AO

Subject: Gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:55:56 PM

Please stop Gmail from allowing political spam on any of its platforms. This is a blatant attempt to undermine US

democracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sent from my iPhone
From: Travis Jennings

To: AO

Subject: GMAIL

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:50:28 PM

STOP GMAIL FROM ALLOWING POLITICAL SPAM.
From: Maria Salgado

To: AO

Subject: gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:54:38 PM

I oppose and strongly object to Gmail being able to sell my information to political

outlets.
From: Gwen Clark

To: AO

Subject: G-Mail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:21:02 PM

Please bring honor and truthfulness back to our country. People have allowed the greatest crook of all

time to reshape our country. It's a fight getting back to what we used to be. Pride, Honesty, The Light of

Hope is what my family brought us up on. Our country has a long way to go as we weed out the

falsehoods that has invaded our every beings. We must stop the bleeding that was the lie that Democrats

had done something to win the elections. It started early in the year when they allowed brainless to take

over their party. We're so much better than that. We so badly need to bring back love, compassion, caring

in the place of mass shootings, automatic weapons, our children lost so senselessly, generations lost,

and being lost in our memories. As we try to hold onto the memories of our loved ones. We must heal our

country but it's going to take a long time. Each and everyone of us have the right to live our lives the way

we want to. We must stop the falsehoods and stop those who selfishly care nothing but about

themselves. This land is Our land, not just a certain group. Please take the small step and stop this mess

so we can get back together again.
From: barbara

To: AO

Subject: gmail/spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:54:42 PM

FEC, Stop gmail from admitting spam. This would disadvantage political parties' effectiveness. Thank you.


From: Beverly Clark

To: AO

Subject: Google spam bypass

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:09:00 PM

I strongly urge you to deny the request regarding the recent proposal by Google to allow political emails to bypass

spam filters, AO 2022-14 (Google LLC).

This would be a terrible decision for a myriad of reasons. Individuals have a right to expect their spam system to do

its job.

Please consider what would happen if all the millions of political emails that google bypassed our spam boxes were

forwarded to you. (Not a pretty picture, is it? It does, however, give you an idea of how we, the people, will feel if

you allow this proposal to move forward.)

But most important, this system would be ripe for abuse by those looking to disseminate misinformation and

propaganda.

Please deny this proposal.

Sent from my iPhone
From: Chris Wallgren

To: AO

Subject: Google Spam Filter Comments

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:36:53 AM

Hello,

Our politicians are terrible people whose greed competes with their zeal for lying and for not

understanding Americans. Whether it's inept Democrats or cruel Republicans, they do not

deserve to ruin our days with more junk email. Maybe if they spent more time listening to

their constituents and not preening on TV, ignoring common-sense approaches to supposedly

divisive issues, and begging for money, they would accomplish something. Please do not

allow Google to get rid of filters. If anything, it'd be nice if politicians could be restricted from

any obnoxious campaigning in which they tell lies and whip people into a fury. Perhaps our

new Supreme Court can come up with a crazy read of the Constitution in which they claim

the Constitution never explicitly says politicians have rights or whatnot.

So anyhow, don't let Google be a bigger platform for crooked politicians to mislead us.

cw
From: Dan Weber

To: AO

Subject: Google Spam Filter Request

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:07:59 AM

To whom it may concern,

Please deny Google/Alphabet's request to allow political action committees to ignore spam

filters. Please do this for all the obvious reasons.

Thanks!

-dan
From: Michele Boley

To: AO

Subject: Google

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:47:12 PM

I am 100% opposed to the request made by Google to allow unsolicited political spam emails

to (further) flood my email!!

Thank you,

Michele C Boley

Naples, FL

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
From: Toby Dann

To: AO

Subject: Google"s proposed pilot to allow political email to bypass Spam rules

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:56:48 PM

To whom it may concern,

I wish to add my objection to the above plan. I understand Gmail has, for a long time, been a

'free' service which Google has the right to operate as it sees fit, I feel the above plan is cause

for concern. I have paid for Google services, including Gmail, for a number of years now and

hope this gives me some say in how the service operates. In an increasingly divided world

,political messaging has become more extreme, contains more misinformation and

increasingly manipulates people's fears and concerns. I, for one, believe I should have the

choice to treat such marketing (and it is that) as I do other unsolicited communications. Like

many users, I have come to rely on Gmail to run my life and need it to contain only pertinent

information or things I have (sometimes regrettably) chosen to receive. This proposed removal

of control is worrying and unnecessary.

Yours sincerely

Toby Dann
From: Mary Keeler

To: AO

Subject: Google"s spam filters for political email

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:32:41 PM

Dear AO:

My comment on the request from Google to ease spam filters for political email is "please do

not approve this"!

Political candidates and fundraisers already send huge amounts of email (at much less cost

than USPS mail), which 

does not help me make political decisions. Please Do Not allow Google Gmail to exclude

political email from spam filters. 

This is just another monetary boon to Google, but a detriment to the US voting public. 

Dr. Keeler
From: Skye Blaine

To: AO

Subject: I already get massive amounts of political spam from Gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:20:20 PM

I already get massive amounts of political spam from Gmail.

I'm begging you, please stop this!

You have the power. I'd appreciate your consideration.

Thank you,

Skye Blaine
From: Lisa Lipowski

To: AO

Subject: I would like Fec to stop gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:44:25 PM

Hello, my name is Lisa Lipowski. I would like the fec to Gmail allowing a political scam. I feel as if my Gmail

accounts are composed because of this and I am censored.

Sent from my iPhone
From: jillrosecke0@gmail.com

To: AO

Subject: Junk politics in my box

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:49:01 PM

STOP !

Sent from my iPhone
From: Michele Bain

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:15:15 PM

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Gmail (which I use but plan to change) because you "peppers" my computer with ads as a

result of inquiries I make on my computer, and I am inundated with that stuff. Now thisis all

spam already but to add to that political spam should not happen to any of us, and surely not

deliberately perpetrated by you to us, your customers.

So please stop those now. Otherwise, adios. Michele Baon
From: trtfmnlwr@aol.com

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 8:02:43 PM

Stop gmail from allowing the online equivalent of robo calls

Robert Handelsman
From: Eileen Sherry

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:11:05 PM

Please stop Gmail from political spam. It is harmful.
From: cserotini

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:25:08 PM

We don't need more divisive info. Please stop.

Sent from my T-Mobile 5G Device
From: Michelle Palladine

To: AO

Subject: No Gmail Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:53:20 PM

I have gmail accounts strictly for business. The main reason I used gmail was because there was far

less spam than with other email providers.

Don’t ruin a good thing just for money.

Michelle Palladine

Sent from Mail for Windows

From: Zach Wilks

To: AO

Subject: NO POLITICAL FUNDRAISING EMAILS

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:44:15 AM

To Whom It May Concern!

There is no legitimate reason beyond political greed and abuse of power for the FEC to

cooperate with Google's desire to circumvent spam filiters for the purpose of political

fundraising campaigns.

This is a blatant and grotesque abuse of corporate and political power over normal people for

the selfish monetary gains and interests.

The political candidates of today have "enough fucking money" and large corporate donors

(and sadly in many cases churches donating) that regular Americans do not need another

avenue for them to pester us with.

Due to a lack of transparency in political fundraising as it is - this is some absolute

BULLSHIT to allow, if I wanted to donate to their god damned campaigns then it's easily

findable with a two second google search already, why in the living hell would I need another

bombardment of information to donate my hard earned money to a political shill? Could it be

that google that google stands to profit greatly from this decision? I'm sure the laregest

collector of data that they shameless sell does not need more handouts from the government.

Please make the right decision and tell google and aspiring political candidates kick rocks.

Maybe they can ask for more of their corporate sugar daddies for more cash and not

underpayed tax payers!

Disrespectfully yours,

One Sincerely Pissed Off American.
From: Kelly DeVine

To: AO

Subject: No political spam from GOOGLE

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:08:42 PM

Dear FEC Board Members,

I oppose allowing GOOGLE to send unsolicited partisan emails to my account. Dark money

groups and foreign adversaries have already proven that they can turn social media platforms

into spaces of propaganda and mis/disinformation to the detriment of the American public. I

do not see a future where this activity does end the same way, populated by narrow and/or

malign interests seeking to unduly influence policy and our shared democratic institutions.

With kind regards,

Kelly DeVine

Port Jefferson, NY

Global Peace Film Festival

IT STARTS HERE.

______________________________

Kelly DeVine > Artistic Director

www.peacefilmfest.org
From: Lea Ekman

To: AO

Subject: No political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:03:37 PM

Sent from my iPad
From: Andrew Watts

To: AO

Subject: No political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:14:57 PM

No political spam from gmail. That’s all.

From: Edge, Ronald D

To: AO

Subject: Oppose FEC Plan to Require Google Gmail Not to Send Political Spam Email to Junk

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:16:29 AM

I am a retired computer professional, over 35 years experience in industry.

It is hard enough to keep one’s email spam free.

But letting political email spam (by definition UNSOLICITED) will erode usefulness of email accounts.

ALL unsolicited email is spam, be definition.

I have about nine Gmail accounts that I actively use or have in reserve.

I am absolute in my opposition to this proposal.

This IU account was once attacked by a spammer, and flooded with bounces from a spam run made

to look as if I had sent the email.

The university had to put a special spam filter in place on my account as I received over 30,000

bounced emails.

At one point, we thought we would have to kill the account, and create a new one. Fortunately, we

prevailed, and I have had this account for 37 years.

Spam email is one of the worst plagues on the Internet. It can quickly render an email account

unusable.

Ron.

Ronald D. Edge

Retired from Indiana University Mar 1, 2011

http://edgeinfotech.com

http://edgeonlinesales.com

http://iuhoosiers.com

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going,because you might not get

there."

“When you come to the fork in the road, take it.”

--Yogi Berra

“If the apocalypse comes, beep me.”

--Buffy Summers, Vampire Slayer

From: Larry Little

To: AO

Subject: Please Don"t Allow Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:10:20 PM

To Whom it Might Concern,

No one wants to receive spam of any sort. It jams inboxes, forces everyone to delete masses of unwanted messages,

and interferes with productivity. It's a complete waste of time and attention. Anything we can do to prevent even

more spam from arriving would be helpful.

Political spam would be particularly objectionable. It would give candidates, political parties, PACs, causes,

movements, etc., unlimited access to our inboxes, which would guarantee that much of it would be unwanted and

result in even more emails to be deleted. Also, the playing field would not be level; wealthier candidates or groups

could afford to send more spam.

Please spare us from the tyranny of unfettered political spam! Thank you.

Sincerely,

Larry Little
From: Lori Stefano

To: AO

Subject: Please stop Gmail"s political spam proposal!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:51:05 PM

I am strongly opposed to Gmail's proposal to let political spam bypass filters and go straight to

my Priority Inbox.

I receive about 200 political emails a day. They are relegated to my lowest-priority Inbox

until I get a chance to address or delete them.

If they were allowed access to my Priority Inbox, I would never be able to find my Priority

email. The political spam would take over my Inbox, and that's all I would be able to see,

since that Inbox only shows a maximum of 50 emails at a glance.

This is a TERRIBLE idea. It makes me helpless against political spam and invades my peace

and PRIVACY.

In addition, I believe this could give one political party an advantage over another. One party

is known to blast out political fundraising emails to the tune of 25-50 or more PER DAY. We

would be inundated with spam.

Please, please do not let Gmail do this. It is a disaster waiting to happen. I will have to leave

Gmail if they are allowed to invade my peace of mind and privacy, and I will not hesitate to do

so.

Now is the time for the FEC to strengthen regulations on political communications, not

open citizens up to even more rampant political messaging.

Thank you for your time.

Lori Stefano

From: Susan J Morris

To: AO

Subject: Political ad belong in Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:05:42 PM

I have too many email every day. I do not want unsolicited political ads and their fund raising

ads to go directly into my incoming email. Let these go to the spam file. If I feel it necessary,

I can scan the Spam files when I have time (rarely).

Thank you, Susan J Morris
From: Ruth Kaiser

To: AO

Subject: Political emails MUST GO TO SPAM FOLDER!!!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:57:55 PM

Please do NOT allow political emails to go to our primary inbox. They should be marked SPAM BECAUSE THEY

ATE SPAM!!!
From: Kristina Hall

To: AO

Subject: political emails

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:13:51 PM

Please stop political emails, it is a vast of money on all sides. Thanks, Kristina Hall
From: Terry and Dottie Hess

To: AO

Subject: Political Scam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:16:23 PM

You are destroying our democracy by allowing mistruths and conspiracies to take hold in our

society. That’s why you can’t scream “fire” in a movie theater. There needs to be some “curbs” so

people don’t start “wildfires” by lies and innuendos.
From: maguire@humboldt1.com

To: AO

Subject: Political seal

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:53:50 PM

Don’t allow political spam! If you really want to make people happy, eliminate ALL spam.
From: bethwd4art@aol.com

To: AO

Subject: Political spam and gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:25:22 PM

I get more than enough political spam via my telephone. It is invasive and beyond

irritating.

Please do not let it infiltrate gmail.
From: Michael Condon

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam ByPass: Google

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:06:17 PM

Dear FCC -

I'm writing to oppose Google's plan to allow political senders to bypass spam filtration, as

suggested in their July request for comment. Political senders, especially fundraising, are

already misleading and aggressive enough to crowd out legitimate communications. Email

consumers need effective tools to manage their communication - allowing a fast-lane which

bypasses normal filtering will negatively impact consusmers. There's no reason political

messaging shouldn't have to abide by the same rules as general commercial interests. If they

wish to reach consumers, campaigns need to create meaningful messages, not click-bait spam.

Thank You -

Michael R. Condon

NOTICE: This e-mail and its attachments, if any, may contain confidential or proprietary 

information and are intended solely for authorized use by the intended recipient(s) only. Any 

other use of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, you are hereby 

notified that any retention, disclosure, copying, forwarding, distribution (in whole or in part 

and whether electronically, written, and/or orally) and/or taking of any action in reliance on 

this email, its contents and/or any attachments thereto is strictly prohibited. If you received 

this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and permanently 

delete this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, from your system immediately.
From: Ruth Osborne

To: AO

Subject: Political spam email

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:56:54 PM

To Whom it may Concern

I am sick and tired of political spam. I have tried to unsub, no luck there. I have also tried blocking which has helped

a little. I am almost at my wits end with election still almost four months away. Please help!

Sincerely

Ruth Osborne
From: Marcia Miller

To: AO

Subject: Political spam emails

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:29:51 PM

Dear FEC,

As a Gmail user, I continue to be stunned by the number of unwanted, unsolicited

emails that appear in my Inbox. Some go directly to SPAM because I've created

filters to enable this. Other slip through no matter what I do.

SPAM is the digital equivalent of junk phone calls. Nobody likes them, everybody

loathes them, but most of us figure we have few options.

However, I don't support Gmail's notion to send political emails directly to spam.

It should be MY decision what to read and what to discard. I am also fully

capable of unsubscribing when I receive unwanted or inappropriate emails.

There must be some sort of middle ground. Perhaps political email could be

labeled or tagged as such so they could be more easily managed (i.e., discarded).

Thank you for your time and consideration. Political spam is a TERRIBLE idea.

Marcia K. Miller

New York, NY 10023-2695
From: Tamara Bergum

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam in my GMAIL

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:58:40 PM

I do not appreciate receiving Political spam in my personal GMAIL folder. It

is a time waster, which I do not appreciate.

Please stop all Political Spam in my GMAIL

Thank you!
From: James Sayre

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:55:38 PM

Please do not allow political spam to reach our mailbox. There is so much false information floating around to

influence gullible people. Look what happened in the 2020 election. There are idiots still believing Trump’s Big Lie.

It has got to stop!!!! We almost lost our democracy and you should never be helping them try again. The threat is

not only NOT going away, it is getting worse. If you allow political spam, you will be aiding and abetting the

insurrectionists.

Thank you,

Joan Sayre

Sent from my iPad
From: Howard Bedient

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:07:40 PM

Please do not allow political entities to bypass spam protections. Don't

we already get plenty of unrequested and unwanted e-mails?

Howard Bedient

Alamo, TX
From: Diane PIRES

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:04:00 PM

Dear FEC

Please do not allow political spam on Gmail. I am getting enough unasked for political mail now. I have spent too

much time unsubscribing and deleting the emails I don’t want. I consider Gmail my personal space in many ways—

unsolicited political emails are invading that space.

Thank you for considering my comments in making your decision on allowing political spam emails on Gmail.

D. Pires

Sent from my iPhone
From: Sandy Birdsong

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:34:08 PM

PLEASE do something about this!!!!!

Sent from my iPhone
From: kratgray61

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:50:12 PM

First of all, no one wants spam! Most if all, POLITICAL SPAM!! It's bad enough that we're

dealing with a huge misinformation problem due to the lies and corruption Trump and his

cronies have been continuing to drum into his loyal subjects, but then they have the balls to

run again after trying to overthrow the government! Why aren't these people in jail instead of

sending spam about their corruption!! Don't!

Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone

From: Paul Martin

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:54:57 PM

Political spam has no place in a democracy! Save our democracy!

Sent from my iPhone
From: ANNETTE MILLER

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:08:52 PM

Please do not allow political scam. It’s bad enough already with previous deregulation. My inbox is inundated with

junk of all kinds!

Thank you.

Sent from my iPhone
From: Susan Trombley

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:30:40 PM

Aloha. As a retired teacher, I can only afford a small amount of data, memory, and

messages. Please block political spam as I need to keep my limited resources available for my

family connections.

Mahalo for your understanding.
From: Barbara Carton-Riker

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:18:41 PM

There is or should be a responsibility for all social networks to make certain that no spam or lies are posted on their

sites. Period.

Sent from my iPhone
From: policau@outlook.com

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam...

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:58:16 PM

Just say NO to gmail allowing political spam. We get enough spam without allowing all of the

political lies to get into our emails without our permission!

NO POLITICAL SPAM ALLOWED!
From: Lumina Greenway

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:52:34 PM

Please do not allow political spam on

Gmail! Thank you!

Sent from my iPhone
From: Mary Schmidt

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:46:47 PM

To whom it may concern, 

I'm tired of getting emails from politicians asking for money . It is panhandling through the

email . It shouldn't be tolerated. Thank you for your action in this matter

Mary Schmidt
From: Christine Dougherty

To: AO

Subject: Proposed Gmail spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:25:38 PM

Hello! I’m writing to ask the FEC to reject the proposal that would allow Gmail to flood our inboxes with

unsolicited political emails. Already I receive entirely too many emails from political candidates and parties, many

of which I didn’t at least consciously sign up to receive. It used to be under control. Now, I have to spend an hour

each week just eliminating the junk in my inbox. I shudder to think how many more I would receive if Gmail has its

way. Here’s the kicker: I strongly believe in citizen participation in the political process. Politicians *need* to be

kept tabs on, you know? With that said, there’s a limit to how much the average citizen can tolerate before throwing

her hands up in disgust with the whole matter. Too many emails soliciting money for candidates can discourage us

from participating in elections if we believe the politicians are just after cash. Please consider very thoroughly the

effect this proposal could have on the general public. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Christine Dougherty

Sent from my iPad
From: Stephen Mik

To: AO

Subject: Protections from Political Gmails in Inboxes

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:37:36 PM

I am a concerned Voter and gmail recipient who does not like the idea that Political gmails may be a force

of the Future. Since the GOP has most of the Financial resources, the gmails would be Biased towards

their Party, allowing Elections to swing in their direction. Please take this issue into account.

SINCERELY, Stephen Mik, Voter and Internet Gmail recipient.
From: Walter Gillett

To: AO

Subject: Re: AO 2022-14 (Google LLC)

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:05:01 PM

Dear FEC -

I've been a gmail user for a long time and a voter for much longer. Please DO NOT ALLOW

Google to flood customer inboxes with political spam. This would be a nuisance and also pose

major privacy and security risks.

Sincerely,

Walter Gillett
From: Jonathan Greene

To: AO

Subject: RE: Stop Gmail from Allowing Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:49:04 PM

Allowing political spam on any social media or public venue should be

illegal. 

First, it has been a problem in the past as shown in Facebook, Twitter,

Instagram etc. Not only has it been a vehicle for misinformation but also a

vehicle for spreading hate, homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism,

misogony, and lies.

Second, it has been used to subert elections in the United States by not just

political parties but also foreign nations. Foreign nations that have used the

office of the president as well as other offices to influence our position and

appearance in view of the entire world. It has been used to direct the course

of the narrative of political debates, political platforms, decisions and

results.

There is also the issue that Gmail, Facebook, Twitter or any other social

media platform, email service provider, telecommunications, texting,

messaging service, and as shown in current news, infotainment shows as

those broadcasted on Fox "News" channel have been able to accurately

monitor, prevent, restrict or remove the dissemination of fake news and

misinformation from its platform neither before it is made public nor before

it has been able to affect change or bias. That change or bias is then not able

to be corrected or remediated as the damage is already done.

Lastly, the goal of any internet based entity should be to decrease the

amount of spam, scammers, identity theft, pleas for money, malicious links,

misinformation, propaganda, "fake news" and situations where a consumer

of their services may be brought into harm with or without their direct

knowledge.

Simply allowing any means of public transmission of these types and

absolving themselves of the content and responsibility for the role that they

play in its impact are not acceptable. This isn't something that should just

be up to the FEC to decide but the FCC and other government entities that

have bearing on the ability for lies and discourse to be spread to the public

from domestic sources but from international sources as well.
-- 

Thanks,

Jonathan Greene
From: Mark Schilling

To: AO

Subject: Regarding AO 2022-14

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:11:48 AM

Dear Sirs,

I am against allowing political emails to bypass spam filters in Gmail or any other mail

service.

This certainly should be something that a user or recipient should have to opt into voluntarily

and not have to receive involuntarily.

Regards,

Mark Schilling
From: S O Villar

To: AO

Subject: Rule NO on Google"s request to exempt political emails from Spam filtering.....

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:46:47 PM

This should definitely NOT be allowed. This is a terrible idea that would

open the floodgates to even more spammy, abusive, lie and hate-infested

political advertisements. No. Not now, not EVER!

Suzanne Villar

Sent from Mail for Windows
From: WALTER SPENCER

To: AO

Subject: Scamming

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:14:34 PM

Dear sirs,

 Hasn't Trump already shown himself to be a scammer??

From: Patricia Berte

To: AO

Subject: Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:31:16 PM

Please stop the FEC from gmail political spam. Thank you

Sent from my iPhone
From: nancy griffith

To: AO

Subject: Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:05:51 PM

Please stop gmail from allowing political spam.

Mistruths, exaggerations, conspiracy theories are destroying our democracy. Thank you

Sent from my iPhone
From:

To: AO

Subject: Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:08:02 PM

The internet has been abused by many political and business entities to promote unverifiable

and/false claims and positions. It is unfair to the vast number of working and elderly people who are

not overly familiar with the internet or who don’t have time to investigate claims made through this

mode of communication and therefore, accept these statements as fact. Please stop this Spam from

influencing our political system.

Sent from Mail for Windows
From: Carol & Allen Frechette

To: AO

Subject: Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:45:32 PM

Please stop political spam from g-mail. Thanks.

Carol Frechette

From: Holden Hume

To: AO

Subject: stop Gmail from allowing political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:53:09 PM

PLEASE, stop Gmail from allowing political spam

Thanks,

Holden Hume, Oakland CA
From: Anne-Marie Levy

To: AO

Subject: Stop gmail’s political spam proposal

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:59:38 PM

Enough is enough. SpM must be stopped.

Sent from my iPhone
From: W Wynne Zaugg

To: AO

Subject: stop gmails filthy political bullshit NOW

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:42:37 PM
From: Joe Pfister

To: AO

Subject: Stop Gmail"s political spam proposal

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:32:34 PM

To Whom It May Concern:

I recommend DENYING the request for Google to deliver political emails directly to

mailboxes. Their proposal argues it would "improve the user experience of Gmail users."

Hardly. Getting more messages I consider spam is NOT improving my experience.

Please keep the restrictions as they are. 

Best wishes,

Joe Pfister
From: JOAN GROSSMAN

To: AO

Subject: Stop Gmail"s political spam proposal

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:21:43 PM

Dear Sir/Madam:

I am strongly against Gmail's proposal to allow political spam to overwhelm inboxes. This is

another way for dark money to evade oversight and will most definitely favor one party, the

Republican Party, and deep pocketed special interests. It is bad enough to be bombarded on

the airwaves; please keep email addresses safe.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

Joan Grossman
From: Mark Scofield

To: AO

Subject: Stop political spam on Gmail and the rest

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:58:13 PM

This policy favors the deepest pockets, meaning the Democrat and Republican parties over

Libertarians, Greens and other parties without the same advertising resources. Further, the

RNC has been demonstrably more willing to use this spam advertising than even the

Democrats.Thanks for your consideration.

Mark Scofield

Canon City CO.
From: Maureen Peterson

To: AO

Subject: STOP POLITICAL SPAM ON MY GMAIL !!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:03:52 PM
From: clare clayfisher.com

To: AO

Subject: STOP political spam!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:48:16 PM

Sent from my iPhone
From: James Roberts

To: AO

Subject: Stop political spam, disinformation through gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:24:08 PM

Sent from my iPhone
From: bkband@atlanticbb.net

To: AO

Subject: STOP POLITICAL SPAM

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:55:27 PM

FUCK GMAIL if it cannot control its content.
From: Rooney, Ellen

To: AO

Subject: stop politiucal spammers!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:59:31 PM

This proposal from gmail is scandalous. No politician is entitled to spam me. No

one whatsoever has a right to override my explicit decision to block their emails as

spam -- to eat up my time demanding I read their drivel. lies and threats. Given the

violent extremists ever more active in our lives, no seditious, racist propaganda

monger should be able to harass and threaten me or assail me with lurid images and

fantasies with no recourse for me to just say no. Please block this proposal.
From: Marvel Stalcup

To: AO

Subject: STOP

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:05:40 PM

stop gmail from allowing political spam

Marv
From: andrew hefner

To: AO

Subject: unrestricted campaign spam e-mail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:04:41 PM

If Google is allowed to remove restrictions on unsolicited emails from political campaigns it

will result in an avalanche of hateful, toxic misinformation flooding everyone's inbox every

day.

We need to be putting more restrictions on harmful disinformation campaigns, not making

them easier.

Thanks for your attention on this matter, Andrew Hefner

Virus-free. www.avast.com

From:

To: AO

Subject: unsolicited political emails

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:56:18 PM

NO. I do not want unsolicited political email to come to my email. I get enough garbage to go

through every day as it is. If it were all true, it would be one thing but there is so much

misinformation put out there, I don’t need it in my face all the time. PLEASE DO NOT ALLOW THIS!

Thank you.

Kristi Brunes

Prorate Services Inc

 
From:

To: AO

Subject: UNSOLICITED POLITICAL SPAM GMAIL

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:29:17 PM

I strongly OBJECT to political emails from any political party getting

special exemption from Spam Filters, and urge you to deny Google's

request to do so . These political emails are primarily donation requests

and contain no fact checking of truth vs lies & misrepresentation. They

DO NOT BELONG in UN-solicited email accounts.

This is a total infringement of my gmail or any email account. It is only in

the interests of political parties & candidates to generate monies &

votes. These emails are NOT REQUESTED NOR WANTED to appear

in any email account. They are definitively SPAM IN NATURE &

DESIGN. DENY SUCH & ALL POLITICAL ACTIONS TO

EMAIL/GMAIL ACCOUNTS.....

Thank you for your consideration.

Mary Ann Till
From: Matthew Fillpot

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 2:00:54 PM

The proposal to force consumers to opt out of political solicitations is outrageous. We are

already inundated with television ads, online ads, campaign posters, social media, etc.. from

political campaigns and should not be forced to take additional actions to protect our

mailboxes from the potential of 24/7 solicitations.

I believe the opposite actons should be required, all political email campaigns should be

required to use opt-in campaigns originating from a website submission with a single

confirmation email including an opt-in confirmation link before additional correspondence can

be sent. All unsolicited correspondence should be immediately routed to junk mail.

Unsolicited emails should be automatically reported to the FEC and fines should be enforced

against the campaigns for infractions.

While I understand the concern from politicians that their messages are being lost, all parties

must understand that the messages are being filtered due to large quantities of user input and

their past negative behavior on the various platforms. We should not excuse their negative

behaviors just because they are related to political actions.
From: Sheila Cowden

To: AO

Subject: AOR 2022-14

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 12:55:32 AM

Gmail has asked the Federal Election Commission for an advisory opinion on a

proposed pilot program to allow federal political campaigns and party

committees to bypass spam filtering algorithms and send messages directly to

consumer inboxes without consequence. This approval is a bad idea which

would open the door to a drastic increase in fundraising emails from countless

political campaigns which we have no interest in hearing from and increase the

barrage of unwanted and unverified emails that must be waded through to find

important and solicited messages. Please do not allow this to happen. The

American public is capable of looking up information on candidates and issues

of interest in approaching elections.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sheila Cowden
From: Kevin Dalley

To: AO

Subject: Comment AO 2022-14 (Google LLC)

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 12:49:36 PM

I recommend denying the request for Google to deliver political emails

directly to mailboxes.

Unrequested email is spam, even if it is from a political candidate.
From: Stamatina Podes

To: AO

Subject: Gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:04:24 PM

Allowing spam to continue being posted on gmail allows lies and untruths to be spread and influence millions withs

those lies.

For the sake our country and its democracy, this must not be allowed to continue!!!

Thank you for your time and consideration,

SDP

Sent from my iPhone
From: Anthony Ishak

To: AO

Subject: Gmail political email proposal

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 12:24:17 PM

Hi

I'm writing in opposition to google's proposal to allow sending political emails without a filter

blocking them. I value my privacy and prefer to keep my email as private as possible.

Thanks

Anthony Ishak

From: M Leow

To: AO

Subject: Gmail

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 8:08:50 AM

Hello,

I am deeply disappointed that Gmail is going to allow political spam to happen. There's far too

much spam to deal with, to even consider political spam. It could favor one political party over

another. And that's just wrong.

Gmail, stay out of my politics and start preventing spam in all forms!!!

Millicent Leow
From: catmcnutt

To: AO

Subject: Google issue

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 2:06:45 PM

I have just discovered Google's interest in relaxing spam filter settings for political emails.

Please do not undermine consumer's ability to filter their communications per their own liking.

Political ads should not have special considerations. Politicians should not be able to buy our

attention at every turn!

Instead, concentrate on the abuse that is already being perpetrated and actually hold

transgressors to account. It's disappointing to know how much abuse your dept allows without

consequences. Don't add another avenue for abuse.

Thank you,

Catherine McNutt

Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone
From: Richard Lubbers

To: AO

Subject: Google political email spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 4:59:20 PM

There is almost nothing worse for our democracy and my personal peace of mind than

allowing unsolicited political emails to bypass Gmail and other spam filters. Please do not

allow this request from Google to go through

Best - Rick

Richard Lubbers

I tried to become The Most Interesting Man In The World, but only got as far as eccentric
From: Mike McKay

To: AO

Subject: Google political email

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 3:12:54 PM

Greetings.

No sense in being long winded, just know that we are very much against Google loosening it's

spam filter on political messages.

Thanks.

Mike and Leslie Whittle

Cypress, Tx
From: Allison Foytik

To: AO

Subject: Google"s Plan to Relax Spam Filters for Political Emails

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 8:45:49 AM

Good morning,

INRE to Google's request to allow political emails to bypass spam filters,

OF COURSE THEY SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DO SO!

They shouldn't be allowed to give away our email addresses to anyone involved in political

campaigns, fundraising for campaigns, or the like.

I have both gmail and yahoo email. There are more businesses cluttering up my email as it is

that I miss many an important email relative to me. And businesses are 'allowed' to do so

because of some minor contact with them. Unsubscribing is a joke, and 'opting out' is a hoop

jumping exercise that usually goes in circles. And NOW! there is consideration to just let

anything relative to political campaigning and fundraising to drop into our inboxes uninvited!

Google says they will insure legitimacy of these groups - bah! There has not been a single

internet media entity to actually do this. Our email will be so inundated with legit and illegit

'political' email it will be rendered useless. More people will be scammed, more elderly will be

ripped off, and more viruses will be dropped onto our computers and devices such that Google

may as well give these groups our social security numbers and bank account information to

save them some time.

It is hard to put into concise words how frustrating this is and how irate this makes me

personally. The general populace has always been a pawn to big business, and now our

government is going to allow big business, Google in this case, to blatantly abuse our rights,

our privacy, and our security. This is so disheartening!

Do not allow Google or any other media company to bypass filters and give away our eaddresses to political groups so that both can line their pockets and let these groups into our ecommunications uninvited!

R/

Allison Foytik

Virginia

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android


From: John Hyman

To: AO

Subject: New Google Program Should NOT be Approved

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 6:12:12 AM

Google's request to the FEC this month asking for a green light on a program that

would essentially let it rip when it comes to political emails, and thus no longer be

susceptible to spam filters following the proposed move and get a direct line to

primary inboxes, is repulsive.

As a small business that hosts email for clients, I see every day the enormity of the

SPAM issue. As a business owner, I deal with the disruptive calls and email that

waste my time. As a human being, is nothing sacred from the reach og greedy and

irresponsible marketers?

BTW - I own a marketing agency. My industry has many talented people but sadly has

many nefarious ones.

Since the commenting period on the proposal remains ongoing, I implore you to block

this new program.

-- 

Sincerely yours,

John Hyman
From:

To: AO

Subject: No on AO 2022-14

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 11:56:52 AM

Political campaigns need more scrutiny, not less.
From: Scott Zeh

To: AO

Subject: No political spam in inboxes!

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:40:08 AM

Please do not allow Google to go through with this horrible plan, it could allow extensive

predatory and malicious emails to end up in inboxes! This could end up duping unsuspecting

people into giving away their money by intimation and fear caused by some of these toxic

campaigns. There could even be a case scenario where say a bad actor who runs for public

office takes advantage of and exploits this hypothetical new policy and sends out a massive

misinformation campaign, distributes phishing emails, scams asking for money- with or

without threats, and/or even launching a cyber attack in emails. This proposal by Google if

allowed to go through would be terrible for democracy, consumers, and individuals: do not let

this happen!
From: Laurence Hiner

To: AO

Subject: Please stop Gmail from political spamming

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:37:05 PM

Hello!

I oppose the further intrusion of big tech into our lives.

It’s enough that these bandits continue to send meaningless advertising to us but now they want to send potentially

unsubstantiated and possibly erroneous or misleading political drivel our way?

Please for the sake of the Republic, DO NOT permit Gmail to send political spam! I already get enough crap as is

and the potential for nefarious abuse frightens the daylights out of me.

Thanks for listening. Please do the right thing and shut their stupid idea down.

All the best,

Laurence A. Hiner
From: Ellene Shapiro

To: AO

Subject: policy

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 6:09:12 PM

FEC,

 I know the agency is replete with intelligence that whispers in that rising crescendo about ethical

and moral crimes and misdemeanors allowed by social media. Please augment those wise whispers

into a strong, booming thematic message!

Thank you,

 Ellene
From: Carol Gaham

To: AO

Subject: Political emails

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:37:12 PM

I get to much spam as it is. I do not want to see political garbage in my inbox, please. Politics

is hateful speech.

Thanks
From: Dianna Davidson

To: AO

Subject: Political SCAM........

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:21:50 PM

Just eliminate Political Scam.

Nothing more has to be said.

dianna
From: Rachel S

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 10:02:14 AM

Please stop google ( monetary greed) from promoting political spam. There will be no control of lies, bullying,

bribery, stealing money from innocent, ignorant or hate mongers many of whom can’t afford to give food or gas

money away but become almost hypnotized !

Politics in this country “has gone to the dogs “!

What happened to honesty virtue caring for fellow man??

Politics is now a money grabbing institution. Please let’s help correct this calamity. Social networking might be

good but in the case of politics it is very bad. How to decipher the truth if there is any ?

Thank you.

Sent from my iPhone
From: Laurie Azzoto

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:29:35 AM

I don't need any political lying spam, especially from republicans!! I get enough of spam in my aol mail it

is ridiculous. I haven't gotten any spam on my gmail and DON'T want it.

Laurie Azzoto
From: Eric West

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:14:54 PM

The FEC should ban all spam on gmail and every other platform. Political lies are

the basis for cheating on elections and fostering hate crimes.
From: Oddquad0090

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:30:44 PM

 WE ARE FLOODED WITH T.V.ADS, RADIO ADS, MAIL GARBAGE ADS, ETC . . . PLEASE DO NOT

ALLOW THE POLITICAL ADS TO RUIN MY GMAIL !!! THE ADS WILL COME FROM RUSSIA, CHINA,

POLAND, ETC . . . WHY OPEN US UP FOR SLANTED INFO, SKEWED TO HELP DESTROY AMERICA

!!!!! STOP THIS IN ITS TRACKS, WE THE PEOPLE WILL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL !!!

 IT'S JUST THE RIGHT THING TO DO FOR AMERICA HELP US CITIZENS FOR A CHANGE !!!
From: Kathy Smiley

To: AO

Subject: political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:30:54 PM

For God's sake, DO NOT make the torrent of political hysterical 'donate' spam any easier. Every time I

open my email (and I am a very interested person in politics) my in-box is flooded with similarly

formatted begging for money. Yeah, sure, I'll just send you some of those loose 1000-dollar bills that are

littering my living room, moron. Most people right now don't have extra money for ANYTHING, let alone

politicians campaign chests. I'm retired and living on social security, and that is a challenge today,

believe me! I may have to go back to work just to survive, and I live in the middle of nowhere (NE KS)

where the cost of living is much lower than the coasts or urban metropolises. Even though I made a

good salary when I was working, SS is barely enough to keep me from having to trap squirrels for food,

so I don't appreciate the constant whining of politician for money and get very tired of having to go

through my inbox every day pruning all those emails out of my account. PLEASE don't do anything to

increase the problem!!!!

Sincerely,

Kathy Smiley, PhD

Manhattan, KS

From: Kenneth Harvey

To: AO

Subject: Spam/misinformation

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 10:00:29 AM

Please stop this. Thanks
From: Penny Earle

To: AO

Subject: Stop gmail from allowing Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:24:40 PM

I want the FEC to stop gmail from allowing political spam.

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
From: Barbara Smith

To: AO

Subject: Stop gmail from allowing political spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 5:19:26 PM

Please stop gmail from allowing political spam because our daily lives are filled with political

ads that often are misleading at best and outright lies at worst.

We don't need political spam intruding on our private mail from family or friends, worming

their way in when we are trying to read scientific or cultural articles, or muddying our finances

when we are paying bills.

Please protect us from gmail's allowing political spam.

Thank you,

Barbara Smith

Tucson, Arizona

From: Polly Peptide

To: AO

Subject: Advisory Opinion 2022 - 14 Google LLC

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 3:43:37 PM

Absolutely not. Politicians should not be allowed to increase spam and hysterical hyperbole to anyone especially

the vulnerable among us. If Google gets behind taking the money out of politics, let me know.
From: -Tricia

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 (Google LLC) - deny the request please

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:04:19 PM

PLEASE do not allow political related messages (especially those disguised as fundraising "opportunity"!) to start

clogging my already overflowing inbox.

Any unsolicited email of any kind must be called for what it really is: SPAM!

I have the right to choose what I want or do not want to receive in my inbox - It's as simple as that!

Thank You
From: Grey Patterson

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 (Google LLC)

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:51:47 PM

Allowing politicians to bypass spam filters is an offensively bad idea. It only came about because a few

spammers/scammers posing as politicians noticed that their spam emails were correctly getting caught in spam

filters, and decided to start shouting that it was politically-motivated. In point of fact, that’s just a spam filter

working correctly. If your campaign ads are getting caught in spam filters a lot more than the other candidate’s are,

consider the simpler solution: you’re bad at writing campaign emails. Nobody’s building a spam filter to ban a

specific politician, they’re building them to identify patterns in the emails that people hit the “move to spam folder”

button on.

If politicians want to stop getting caught in spam filters, they should do the same thing every other email marketer

has to do: write emails that people actually want to read. Stop trying to end-run around one of the few functional

systems we have protecting us from the constant garbage fire that is the internet.

Here’s the simple call to action: tell Google their proposed plan is bad and they should cancel it.
From: Steve L

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 (Google)

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:31:23 PM

Google's request is unbelievably offensive - spam is a scourge on society and the worst offenders are our politicians,

begging for money. The same e-mail address I use to get letters from my mom and other loved ones gets bombarded

with spam when idiots mistype my address or (worse) when spammers find my e-mail address.

Why on earth should Google get an exemption from the law to provide in-kind contributions to politicians and

groups it has selected. It is bad enough that Youtube and other platforms censor individuals, now we will have

Google deciding which politicians and groups can contact people, and they are doing it through spam.

There is literally no way this proposal could have been worse except if it were submitted written in the ink of baby

blood.
From: Wayne Urton

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 (please stop Gmail"s political spam proposal)

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:13:00 PM

I am sick of all of this spam. I get way too many unsolicited emails already. This proposal will make email unusable.

Who has time to keep up with several hundred political emails a day? I don't.

Unsolicited emails are spam by definition. It is no different than unsolicited phone calls. Maybe you could start a

No-email-spam service like phones.

Thanks for your consideration.

C. Wayne Urton
From: Katherine Kaemmerer

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 comment NO to Google spam bypass of Political Fundraisers

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:44:40 PM

I am NOT in support of receiving further political emails bypassing my SPAM asking for contributions since the

harassment of the 2016 election fundraising emails and political texts. Spam on social media is already ramping up

and stressful. We pay taxes already as is to all of these candidates in positions asking for 'support', and it is

extremely unethical to loophole political funding emails by quickly pushing through this request during ongoing

investigations into misleading fundraising by candidates and pre-existing candidates who are already paid by

citizens. I agree and stand with the majority of the public who DO NOT want more political fund harassment:

[ Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (“CREW”) respectfully requests the Federal Election

Commission (“FEC” or “Commission”) deny Advisory Opinion Request 2022‐14 (the “AO Request”) by Google

LLC to permit spam on its platform by federally registered political committees.]

--

Katherine
From: Hayden Muhl

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 Google LLC

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:04:57 AM

Absolutely not.

Political emails should not be allowed special treatment to bypass

filters. They should be subject to all the same rules as any other

email.

I define spam as unsolicited, unwanted email. Most, if not all,

political email falls under that description. I mark political emails

as spam, because I don't want them. I'd prefer to not receive them at

all, but if I do receive them, I want them tucked away in the spam

folder where I never have to see them. Google should respect my

preferences, and should not be allowed permission to make an

exception.

- Hayden Muhl
From: Ross Olson

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:33:04 PM

Request you deny Google's request to do a pilot program where campaign ads go to peoples inboxes and not through

their spam filters.

Do not create a “safe harbor”, as the next auto warranty spam and voice mails will be from an “auto warranty PAC”.

-Ross Olson

Portland, OR

--

...Ross...
From: Mr. Noisy

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:20:09 AM

As a Gmail user, I implore the FEC to deny Google's request to relax the rules used for filtering political

solicitations.

Allowing these mass messaging campaigns to bypass the rules applied to other spam messages will just provide

another potential vector for phishing to be exploited by email scammers and actively degrades the quality of service

to users of the most-used email service in the country, all in the pursuit of enriching what is by far the most useless

group of individuals in our nation's history - the lackwit know-nothings that engage in gridlock in place of

legislation and action.

Deny these worthless pustules the ability to financially prey upon the American people, particularly in this time of

rampant inflation and economic hardship that is the direct result of our political class's inability to accomplish

anything of tangible benefit to the people they claim to represent.
From: Tip Top

To: AO

Subject: Auto Warranty Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:12:56 PM

Why isn’t the FCC doing anything about the SPAM phone calls we’re being inundated with about bogus auto

warranties?

Let me know,

Chris Byer
From: Anne Koettel

To: AO

Subject: Comment on 2022-14

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:52:01 AM

I am strongly opposed to the proposed change to Gmail’s filtering of political emails. If the volume of unsolicited

political emails even approaches the volume of unsolicited political print mailers, it will be an extreme burden on

gmail users to manage their inboxes around the time of an election. When users selected “paperless” options for

important communication, they did not expect to have to pick their legitimate messages out from among many

unsolicited political messages.

In addition, in this time of hyper-partisan political narratives, campaigns often communicate hyperbolic messages to

voters Allowing them to bombard email boxes of those susceptible to this messaging, especially since emails often

include direct links to donate to the campaign, will only weaken the already tenuous hold many Americans feel we

have on true democracy.
From: Richard Gleaves

To: AO

Subject: Comment on Advisory Opinion Request 2022‐14 re Google’s Pilot Program to Permit Political Campaign Spam

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:33:21 PM

FEC,

About 18 months ago, I made a single online donation to a congressional candidate outside my district.

Ever since then I have regretted this decision – my Gmail account is now subjected to regular spam requests for

donating to other politicians. As fast as I can set up manual email filters in Gmail to stop these solicitations, new

ones keep slipping through with different email addresses.

Please do whatever it takes to discourage or ban Google from facilitating the broadcast of political spam emails.

Doing so will save many people precious time.

Best regards,

Richard Gleaves
From: Dave Weiler

To: AO

Subject: Comment on Google Advisory Opinion

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:56:24 AM

Hi,

I'd like to add the following comment to the advisory opinion:

I am opposed to allowing political emails bypass spam filters. As a gmail user, I choose to use a spam filter. I

control the filter and regularly check which messages are being blocked. If there is a message I wish to receive, I

allow it. This is the kind of active control that prevents information overload. If this control is stripped away, not

only will I be less inclined to use the product, but I will also be forced to spend more of my day wading through the

dross that is the current trend of political fear-mongering by email. And so will you.

Please do not allow this pilot program to proceed.

Thank you for your consideration.

--

--

Dave
From: Sunrider

To: AO

Subject: Comment on Google"s Pilot Program

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:21:03 PM

My comment is, "Hell No"!

Unsolicited emails (not to mention texts, mail, phone calls, and door-to-door campaigning) from politicians and

political organizations should be treated as spam. Nothing makes them unique and deserving of preferential

treatment! Let them use radio, TV, podcasts, newspapers, magazines, and the like to reach the public--but leave our

Google accounts alone. Google should not be allowed to invade our inboxes with what will essentially be more junk

mail with the distinct possibility of another means to spread misinformation!

Don't let political, wealthy, and corporate America bullys influence the FEC's decision on this matter.

Don't be like some other government entities who care little about what's right regarding the interests of the majority

of the public.

Finally, two questions.

Why has this been kept a virtual secret from the public? What Google wants to do will impact millions of people.

What motive do they have other than to protect themselves from being sued for doing something that is obviously

designed to simply make more money using our personal data?

Why does the FEC make it difficult for the public to figure out from its website how to comment? It makes me

wonder if the FEC is only making a show of asking for comments, especially when it set a very short deadline.
From: Glenn Kazanowski

To: AO

Subject: Constant Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:47:58 PM

Please stop gmail from allowing constant to be sent to our accounts. It’s annoying and it clogs up my account.

They’re supposed to be a service not a lobbying entity

Sent from my iPhone
From: Andrea Barela

To: AO

Subject: Do Not Allow Google to Deliver Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:33:30 AM

To whom it may concern:

I highly oppose Google's request to the FEC asking for approval on a program to send political emails to primary

inboxes.

Political emails must be susceptible to spam filters and NEVER be allowed a direct line to primary inboxes.

Please keep political spam out of my primary inbox.

Thank you for your consideration,

Andrea Barela
From: Shari Schaefer

To: AO

Subject: Do not allow Google to rubber stamp political emails.

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 11:35:10 PM

I am a Google mail user. I have the right to decide what is spam or valuable in my inbox. Google does not have the

right to make political decisions for me. If Google is allowed to do this, it will be an abrogation of my rights to make

amy own political choices and is a dangerous precident in a time when such actions will only inflame more

contraversy. Please refuse this corporate overreach and allow people to maintain the autonomy they have always had

to decide what is valid and what is dross for themselves.

Shari Schaefer

Dandridge, TN

Google mail user for over a decade.
From: David Magnotti

To: AO

Subject: Don’t let Google allow political spam on Gmail

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:13:58 PM

We have enough political spam through other mediums already.

-David
From: Catherine Sullivan

To: AO

Subject: Election emails

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:59:08 PM

Please DO NOT allow a firehouse of election emails into my inbox. I want my spam filter to sequester them. This is

why Google is getting a bad reputation and I am thinking of getting rid of my Gmail.

Catherine B Sullivan
From: Dan Tonne

To: AO

Subject: Gmail and political Emails

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:45:40 PM

To Whom it May Concern:

As US citizens we are already inundated with political ads via US mail and every single commercial slot on

television in the months leading up to an election contain at least one or two political ads. I think it is already

obnoxious as it is currently and now you want us to deal with more of it? Gmail is not just someone’s personal email

alone but they are also work emails and I don’t need more junk email.

I truly think that political emails should not be mandatory. If an individual wants to receive political emails, they can

just sign up on their favorite politicians website.

Thank for your attention to this matter.

Daniel M. Tonne
From: Jan fotos

To: AO

Subject: Gmail and political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:37:05 PM

I beg you to put a stop to this ludicrous idea. It is bad enough that one list (that you did sign up for) gives your email

address to another list, but to deliberately open up my inbox to MAIL I NEVER AGREED TO IN THE FIRST

PLACE?

Sounds like a dystopian scheme thought up by Republicans who think that they are disadvantaged because the

majority of Americans do not agree with them. In fact, they are basing their argument on a North Carolina State

University study the authors of which are claiming Republicans are misrepresenting!

I am harassed enough with political phone calls and spam on my main email; please do not allow political

harassment by Gmail as well.

Thank you, Jan

Janet E Fotos
From: Fred Granlund

To: AO

Subject: Gmail petition

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:42:14 PM

I am writing to urge the Commission to REJECT Google's proposal to allow political messages to bypass "spam"

filters on Gmail.

Since so much of the content of political emails consists of false claims and attempts to frighten the recipient, users

would be better served by sending them to the "promotions" inbox with warnings about their likely fraudulent

content.

Until we start enforcing our "truth in advertising" laws against political advertisers, less access to the public is better

for the country.

Fred Granlund

Gmail address: 
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From: Doug Landau

To: AO

Subject: Gmail Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:56:11 PM

Hi,

Please do not add any more spam to my email.

Of course it would give an advantage to one political party or another. They do not have an equal amount of money

so one will have an advantage.

Thanks, Doug
From: Mike Lang

To: AO

Subject: Gmail Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:27:31 AM

Google should NOT be allowed to s relax spam filtering to allow more political spam into mailboxes. Allowing

them to do this for profiting is dangerous and inappropriate.
From: Diane Marsalis/Margaret Catches

To: AO

Subject: Gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:37:14 PM

Please stop gmail from allowing political spam. There's enough

politically-paid propaganda going around already.
From: Thomas Johnson

To: AO

Subject: gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:18:29 PM

Please spare me any more political emails, opinions I'm not interested in reading and having to delete. My mailbox

receives a half dozen of these things a day. Really I'm sick of it. I don't read them, they just fill up my box and I'm

tired of it.

Thank you Hampton Johnson
From: Edith Ogella

To: AO

Subject: g-mail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:30:12 PM

I am really concerned about the g-mail changes. Many people I know who have that mail are not quite able to

understand which political ads are accurate, and which are not. They do not understand that they are being

manipulated.

Please do not allow these changes, Sincerely, Edith Ogella
From: Michael Carter

To: AO

Subject: G-mail"s Political Spam Proposal

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:57:29 PM

I cannot believe that the FEC would allow G-mail to pollute my inbox with unwanted political s**t. Spam mailing

must be stopped. Those who want it should be able to request it but for the rest of us, it is an invasion of privacy.

G-mail should not have the right to do this. Personally, I would end my relationship with G-mail even though I have

been pleased with their service for many years or decades. This is serious and personal. DO NOT allow them to

dump on us. This is something you can do. Please do it. Thank you.

--

Michael
From: Amy M

To: AO

Subject: GMAIL"s political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 8:01:08 PM

7/15/2022

Hello.

I am writing today to lodge a complaint against Google and their use of spam advertising as related to politics.

Usually, I read the news on my phone several times a day. As I do this, I am constantly interrupted by political ads

from the republican party.

I am also finding emails from republican political sites I have never heard of or subscribed to.

I have also found these types of political ads from the republican party in text messages. I have never solicited for

these kinds of ads.

As far as the ads on my phone are concerned, I have installed the duckduckgo app to handle the ads, as well as on

my computer browser.

As far as the text messages are concerned, I report spam, but these types of messages keep coming in from different

phone numbers.

Just vote no to google. Vote no to allowing any political party to do this

Thank you.

A.M. Merritt
From: John Thompson

To: AO

Subject: Gmail"s proposal to allow spam political mail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:05:55 PM

To whom it may concern:

I am opposed to further polluting the political waters and the crass commercialization of our political system by

Gmail’s proposal to allow political spam. Google may be a private company with an unfortunate virtual monopoly

on internet services, but each of is has an absolute right to determine what we will see and read o the internet,

especially in what should be the private forum of our personal email accounts. I do not want my inbox stuffed with

unsolicited advertising for candidates and issues I not only oppose, but find evil and destructive of democracy. Do

not confuse capitalist motivations with free speech. The first amendment should defend not only the right to free

speech, but also the right of individuals to insulate themselves from it.

Respectfully yours,

John Thompson
From: David Perry

To: AO

Subject: Gmil

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:11:12 PM

Political spam has no place in society and must be banned.
From: Avery Grayson

Subject: Good Day

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:53:08 AM

Good Day,

My name is Grayson Avery, I am working with

Whitman Laboratories UK, I want to share something that would be

deemed of interest to you. Reply for more details

Best Regards,

Grayson Avery

Research Assistant

Research and Development Department

Whitman Laboratories UK
From: Kat Johnson

To: AO

Subject: Google and Gmail

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 6:52:27 PM

I am categorically opposed to allowing Google to open the floodgates on political information and solicitations in

my email. I am capable of finding my own sources of political information and do not need, nor do I want Google's

assistance. If I require additional information, I will contact or sign up for emails from the sources I want and trust.

Thank you,

Kat Johnson
From: Emily Jenkins

To: AO

Subject: Google pilot program

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:20:15 PM

Dear FEC,

I urge you to reject Google's request to essentially allow access to their user inboxes by politicians and political

action committee.

Not only do I not wish to receive emails that I didn't sign up for, I believe this could be another dangerous avenue

for in atmosphere of corrosive political speech. Does Google plan to verify that each of these emails is truthful prior

to sending? I doubt it.

Thank you,

Emily Jenkins
From: lamar ovray

To: AO

Subject: Google political email

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:59:30 PM

Election related political email is and always will be spam. Keep it that way.

Bruce Cole

Anderson, California
From: Trevor Kelton

To: AO

Subject: Google Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:37:48 PM

Please don't allow Google to let political mail bypass spam filters. I get enough political spam as it is from text

messages and phone calls and my email is relatively clean in comparison. Please please please don't let this become

another robocall problem.

Trevor
From: Karyn Tal

To: AO

Subject: Google request to allow political emails

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:36:11 PM

Dear FEC,

THere are enough media outlets for political literature and ads. We are harassed daily by them.It is a horrible idea to

assault Gmail users this way.

Karyn Talmadge
From: Jski3

To: AO

Subject: Google request to require “opt-in” to prevent unwanted political email spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:20:24 PM

Please do not allow politicians to bypass Google’s Gmail spam filters.

The allowing of unfiltered “political” emails could introduce security risks, for example from fake political accounts

scamming unsuspecting users who trust Google to have filtered out general malicious content.

With all the malicious >political< content being circulated the FEC should strengthen regulations on political

communications, not open citizens up to even more rampant political messaging.

Thank you for your attention.

J.Sikorski
From: Sandra Lynn

To: AO

Subject: Google spam protection

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:01:49 PM

I am horrified and offended by Google's desire to prevent political ads and political spam from being filtered out. I

don't want a politician or political party trying to brainwash me. Where does Google get off telling people what we

can choose to have sent to us? Is this country a republic or not?

Please stand up to Google and prevent them from deciding what can be filtered out of mail.

Sandra Lynn
From: Ann Johnson

To: AO

Subject: Google spam re political email

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:43:46 PM

PLEASE do NOT allow unsolicited political emails to be sent to Gmail users. There is absolutely NO BENEFIT for

Gmail users to watch political propaganda; it is an outright ABUSE OF PRIVACY. More importantly, it poses a

HUGE SECURITY RISK by opening the door for further foreign influence in our elections. How secure are

campaign office computers anyway? This is NOT a good idea and I urge you not to even entertain this notion.
From: Andrea C

To: AO

Subject: Google

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 9:11:23 PM

Please do not allow Google to spam my inbox with political ads. I feel that this would be the definition of

government overreach.
From: Laura Frizzell

To: AO

Subject: Google"s proposed Policy on political email

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:05:55 PM

Google's idea to allow unsolicited political email to bypass spam filtering has to be one of the most ridiculous ideas

I heard yet. As it is I often get over 2 dozen emails a day regarding political contributions. Such email is certainly

spam, and needs to be treated as such. I don't want to sort it out. Thank you.
From: Doug Rhoten

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request to relax spam filters for political emails

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:03:06 PM

No one wants this except for politicians. We are already bombarded by endless political ads on TV, radio, social

media, robocalls, etc. Doing so would likely allow SPAMers to abuse it to be able to send SPAM messages that get

more messages to inboxes that contain malware, links to malicious sites and or phishing attempts.

Thank you.

Doug Rhoten
From: Chad

To: AO

Subject: I am against Gmail allowing Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:16:10 PM

I am currently a gmail user.

Gmail, along with several other departments at Google, have shown bias toward political, social, and financial

positions that are not in the service of the public good. Their flagrant recent manipulation of search results that

include black listing (completely removing sites/content from search results) in so many areas such as health,

politics, energy, etc., as well as deboosting (sinking content beyond a search users ability to get to it), and finally

boosting content that fits or favors Google’s very subjective interests all indicate a untrustworthy corporation. 

Many other privacy issues have shown up in Gmail, and other services that track everything about a user with no

transparency and a blanket statement that says if you use our services you give up your right to privacy. 

In light of the many questionable actions, as well as low morale quality of those actions suggests that Google will

use similar practices to promote and demote political polices and political races that favor Google. The idea that

Google is simply a door through switch political spam can get through is not accurate. Google will use its influence

and internal manipulation of content and access control over content to continue to polarize politics (make each

position more extreme) as well as favor its own not so altruistic interests.

Please do not give more power to Google to manipulate data, people, and how people make decisions—especially

politically.

--Chad
From: Hadiya Maha

To: AO

Subject: Is this email valid?

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:25:49 AM

Hi,

My name is Hadiya Maha from Canada Presently working in Dubai United Arab Emirate,I would like to have

personal talk with you, I do promise to be a very good friend and partner,

Thnanks
From: Carl Olson

To: AO

Subject: Just Say No!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:33:40 PM

We won’t benefit from “political spam” on Google. Just say no!

Sincerely,

Carl Olson

--

Best,

Carl
From: Jan Shimp

To: AO

Subject: Lies / spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:07:48 PM

You will not get far with your lies in life because when you die, you will know you did wrong .... Your bodies will

hurt, your minds aren’t right, smart, and you don’t know your own name sometimes, much less care about your

families .... Truth, justice is the American way and goodness will win 

Sent from my iPad
From: Pat Tuder

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:09:26 PM

Every other email I receive is political in nature,it doesn't matter which side it is, I get enough spam mail already

and I tired of sending all those emails to spam or trash, I want them stopped.
From: Ann Gilson

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:31:38 PM

Please stop allowing political spam!

Ann Gilson
From: Hector Torres

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:34:48 PM

Yo deseo que paren los emails políticos no solicitados porque los pobres, como yo, no tenemos celulares con

bastante memoria para gastar la misma en emails innecesarios y propagandistas.
From: Nancy Salzman

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:14:12 PM

STOP spam e-mails!!!!! Thank you.
From: Dennis Carlson

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:45:38 PM

As a Gmail user I am livid you would EVEN consider allowing political spam . IT SHOULD BE OUTLAWED

!!!!!! Get this garbage out of my life , forever !!!!!!!!
From: Linda Voci

To: AO

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 4:15:50 AM

Greetings!

Please stop Google Gmail from sending political spam emails.
From: Mary Edwards

To: AO

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:56:52 PM

Please stop gmail from allowing political spam. I truly appreciate the informative e-mails from groups I have signed

up for--but the total number of those per day is now about 150! E-mail is a wondrous help to us all in this day and

age--but there are limits!! I don't want to pay more and more for non-factual information about the important topics

of the news and of our political state. I also do not have time to sift through my mail--which until now has been a

very helpful tool for me to be better informed about IMPORTANT political topics. Thank you.

Mary Edwards
From: schoemer2@frontier.com

To: AO

Subject: NEW SPAM ALERT...

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:39:14 PM

DON'T YOU DO IT... ANY SPAM IS BADNEWS....THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED SPAM..

POLITICAL SPAM... #1,,, LIKE ALL IS UNWANTED, AND INSTRUSION, IT IRKS...

NOW, YOU ADD TO THAT THE INCIDIARY NATURE OF RECENT POLITICS...AND YOU WANT TO

FORCE THAT ON YOUR CUSTOMERS????? MOST OF US DO EVERYTHNG TO GET AWAY FROM IT.

WHO WANTS TO GIVE YOU PILES OF MONEY TO DO THIS?

HOW DOES THIS HELP OUR COUNTRY, OR WE, YOUR CUSTOMERS/??

KEEP US FREE FROM ALL SPAM YOU CAN....AND DO NO LET THIS CRAP ON TO MY COMPUTER.

AND WE HAVE MANY OTHER SEARCH ENGINE CHOICES.... WE DON'T NEED YOU..

DO YOU NEED US?

RJ SCHOEMER, CAMBRIDGE WI
From: Charles Plucker

To: AO

Subject: No bypassing spam filters ever!

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:27:40 PM

Hello,

I am writing in to request that google not be made to make political emails pass through spam filters. I already get

shitty text messages I can’t unsubscribe from. I want to maintain my ability to choose political emails as being spam

and not be disturbed by them.

Thanks,

Charles Plucker

Sent from my iPhone
From: Vikki Hallen

To: AO

Subject: No more political-ness!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:53:51 PM

Please! I'm overwhelmed by random emails for political donations and supposedly true info on everything! I don't

need any more stuff clogging my inbox that I have to manually go through and delete. This stuff isn't just one party

or another sending and I want none so please stop the goofy idea of allowing more crap through! I actually think

that a lot of the stuff now days, of political and so called "news" should be banned Thankyou, Don & Vikki Hallen
From: H Branstetter

To: AO

Subject: No to Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:24:54 AM

Good day FEC,

I believe that allowing political parties or those running for political office to indiscriminately spam me with email

during election cycles is wrong because it opens the door for other neferious organizations and individuals to spam

me, as well.

I already give to those political groups and individuals that I see fit to fund. My private information does not need to

be sold to political groups. There are other, public, avenues for fundraising such as billboards, and social media ads.

I am on several social media platforms, daily. There are news outlets online that run ads. That would be the perfect

public platform to run ads because I am sure to see them.

If any political group orsindividual spams me on my personal email I will certainly not be voting for them.

Sincerely,

Dr. Heather Branstetter
From: Linda Majdoch

To: AO

Subject: Opposed to Google Request to Lift Spam Filters on Political Ads

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:54:54 AM

NO special treatment for political ads. Spam filters should apply because TOO MANY political ads, especially from

super pacs, are nothing but spam!

Vote NO to special treatment of political ads!!

Sincerely, Linda Majdoch
From: Meryle Korn

To: AO

Subject: Please keep gmail from filling my in-box with political mailings!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:04:11 PM

Political “spam” is an annoying time-waster, even when it’s just the time wasted to delete it without reading.

Taking further time to stop or block it is even more annoying. Just stop gmail from sending it in the first place!

Thank you.

Meryle A. Korn

Bellingham, WA
From: Karen Gillison

To: AO

Subject: Please no

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 10:03:29 PM

Regarding Google's request to allow unfettered access by political emails direct to primary inbox, I hope you will

deny this request.

The only time that people should be receiving emails is when they specifically opt in. Unwanted emails having

direct access to primary inbox is a huge drag on productivity and introduces unwanted amounts of noise into what

should be a communication system.
From: Val Farrelly

To: AO

Subject: Please stop gmail from allowing political spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 12:51:06 AM

Please do not allow this truly horrendous idea to be approved. If the last few years have taught us anything, it's that

political decisions should not be left in the hands of tech neophytes and biillionaires who have ruined everything that

made America and the internet pleasant places to be. Please save us from their greed, their overreach, and their

ineptitude to confront the forces of fascism that currently imperil our democracy.

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Val Farrelly

Writer-Producer

 San Mateo, California
From: Salmon Valley Rockhounds

To: AO

Subject: Political email

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:27:27 PM

Dear FEC,

Are you serious? We don't get enough unsolicited email?

I have no problem switching to another email service.. You aint the only fish in the sea, and we are not married to

you.

Salmon Valley RockHounds
From: Jack Williams

To: AO

Subject: Political Emails Should NOT be able to bypass spam filters

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:52:39 PM

Please do not allow the Google request for political emails to bypass spam filters happen. I do NOT want any

emails I have not requested myself. Thank you! - Jack Williams, Athens, TN
From: Jeffrey Guild

To: AO

Subject: Political emails

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:10:26 PM

I am strongly against allowing delivery of political emails that are not subject to spam filters. I strongly urge that

such requests be denied.

Jeffrey Guild

Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse any tyos or mispellings.
From: Jon James

To: AO

Subject: Political emails

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:29:23 AM

I realize I'm pissing up a rope because as we know the Benjamins ALWAYS win, but please don't allow more

political gmails to get past filters. Have a great one.
From: Bonnie Bushnell

To: AO

Subject: Political gmail SPAM

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 12:05:49 AM

I would greatly appreciate it if the political SPAM ended. 99% is just wanting donations & I get the exact same

one's two to five times a day EVERY DAY. I receive a total of at least 400 if not more a day & it's more than

frustrating!! Thank You, Bonnie B.
From: John G. Singer

To: AO

Subject: Political Mail

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:35:11 PM

Please DO NOT allow political spam.

John

John G. Singer
From: Jacquelyn Smith

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:52:24 PM

I request you stop gmail from allowing political spam to be sent. This is ( the spam) not needed and this spam

should stop now.

Thank you for acting on this problem now.

Jackie Smith

Sent from my iPhone
From: Ralphy The tiger

To: AO

Subject: Political spam on gmail

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 3:08:46 PM

Allowing gmail to send our political spam is a clear and present danger to our democracy and must be denied. We

saw the mess it created in the last national election. Gmail is using the internet, created with 100% public taxpayer

money and we need to have a say in how it is used. This gross profiteering at our expense must be reigned in.
From: Sheryl Benning

To: AO

Subject: political spam on gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:11:10 PM

please stop gmail from spreading political propaganda and spam. Thank you
From: Nett Hart

To: AO

Subject: Political spam proposal from Gmail

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:07:38 PM

Dear review committee,

As a civic and politically active person I daily receive between 50 and 150 emails, many from candidates I support

or their like minded others. Many organizations as well as candidates alert me to specific actions aligning with my

commitments. The number and frequency of these emails is a small burden given that these are causes about which I

care.

However, if I were to receive spam emails from any political entity that had the funding to assault inboxes at will,

truthfully or not, I fear it would be a disincentive to participate in our democratic process. Supporting smaller,

grassroots candidates would be much harder to do as the noise level rises. The power of wealthy individuals and

corporate donors would drown out the specific and unique representation we need to present the whole of the

American people.

We do not need political spam to obscure the process so that a large corporation can make even more money off

campaigns.

Sincerely,

Nett Hart
From: Lynda Dawson

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:27:21 PM

Please do something to stop my g mail account from being full of political e mails from politicians all over the

country.

Thank you
From: Joanne Gates

To: AO

Subject: political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:12:48 PM

I am getting hundreds of political emails already. Clogs my inbox. Spam would be far too much to deal with.
From: shelley harris

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:33:41 PM

Allowing political spam will negatively affect my use of gmail. When I receive political emails, I usually delete

them because they overwhelm my account. I fear I may inadvertently delete important emails when deleting down

the list of political spam. Sometimes a subject line catches my attention, but rarely.

My alternative would be to switch providers or to stop contributing to political campaigns or to change my email

address, so I don’t overlook important personal emails.

I urge you not to allow political spam.

Thank you

Shelley Wolf Harris

--

Shelley Harris Sent from Gmail Mobile
From: Dolores roberts

To: AO

Subject: political spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 5:00:00 AM

i get from 30 to 50 e mails each day, from people in states i have never even seen. this is unacceptable. please stop

it/
From: Herb Ham

To: AO

Subject: Political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:49:22 PM

I wish to express my extreme concern regarding Gmail allowing access of political to their accounts. I view this as

nothing short of allowing elections to be purchased and/or unduly influenced by by money PAC funds. Please

disallow this scheme.
From: John Cooke

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 1:45:08 PM

Please do not allow Google to permit political spam, now, or ever. Our mailboxes are overflowing with spam now.

Adding this extra burden will be an abomination.

 Thank you for your consideration.
From: Sharon Baker

To: AO

Subject: political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:54:32 PM

All political spam from either right or left is wrong! It is unacceptable! It is past time for our elections to be open

and honest and not be misleading. Thanks for helping to stop political spam!

Sharon Baker

Goshen IN

--

Open your hand to what grace lays into your surrendered palm today. It's not meant to harm you, hurt you, harden

you - it's meant to draw you into Him. You can't grow hard when you're pressed up against His heart. You can't

grow hateful when you're laying what's painful in His hands. You can't grow jaded when your greatest treasure is

Jesus. So open your hand today - take His. Ann Vos Kamp
From: Ellen Woodruff

To: AO

Subject: pollitical Scam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:12:49 PM

Please get rid of political Scam! It is not worthy of print.
From: Cristopher Thomas

To: AO

Subject: RE: AO 2022-14

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 9:12:02 PM

Under NO circumstances should political emails be able to bypass spam filtering. Email traffic that behaves like

spam is spam. Email senders that behave like spammers are spammers.

Spam filtering is put in place to protect users from bad actors. If political entities do not want their emails flagged by

spam filters, it is on them to change their behavior and the quality of their emails.

— Cristopher Thomas

Sent from my iPad
From: Stan S

To: AO

Subject: Response to AO 2022-14 Google

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 7:19:49 AM

This is a simple NO.

Spam is spam regardless of the legitimacy of the sender. If I have not registered my email address with a political

entity, then I have no desire to receive anything from them. Unsolicited email is a scourge and this proposal opens

up a pandoras box of garbage flooding our email accounts. My USPS mailbox is testimony to that.

This proposal needs to be more broadly published with a longer comment period. This affects millions and warrants

very serious consideration of the consequences.
From: Greta Aul

To: AO

Subject: Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 11:12:45 PM

Please, no political spam. Thank you.

Sent from my iPad
From: Tony

To: AO

Subject: spam is spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:03:16 PM

I object to political campaigns gaining the ability to bypass spam filtering.

Tony Turiano

--

Tony
From: Beth Jane Freeman

To: AO

Subject: Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 8:00:04 PM

They are not only sending out political spam, they are using gmail to work get rich quick schemes and sell dubious

product to unsuspecting people. This has got to stop!

Sent from my iPad
From: Margaret Mann

To: AO

Subject: Spam

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 8:26:43 PM

Send it to Spam........I do not want to be slammed by campaign ads............

Enough already......SPAM SPAM SPAM

MM
From: Alva Pingel

To: AO

Subject: Spam.Political Email

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:03:29 PM

The FEC must stop Gmail’s proposal to allow political email!
From: Bonita Jane

To: AO

Subject: Stop disinformation!

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:11:26 PM
From:

To: AO

Subject: stop gmail from allowing political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:32:12 PM

Please consider whether or not the proposal would give an advantage to one political party or another. If you’re able

to incorporate anything making that case, please do.

Doug Gemmell
From: deanwilson

To: AO

Subject: Stop gmail from allowing political spam.

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:56:12 PM

We all get far too much spam email. Please do not allow Gmail to add to that.

Regards,

Dean Wilson
From: Joan Crowe

To: AO

Subject: stop gmail from allowing political spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:52:13 PM

The volume of email is overwhelming for me and other people situated

like me. It would be good to avoid any email I do not have to get.

It takes time and energy--hence carbon tons, for everyone to delete

all the email that arrives in their primary in-box, and this is why I

want the FEC to stop Gmail from allowing political spam, especially

from allowing political spam to bypass the spam and/or trash

locations. Thank you.
From: karynbarry

To: AO

Subject: Stop gmail from political spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 11:43:31 AM

Stop gmail from political spam!

Karyn Barry

From: Craig Carlson

To: AO

Subject: STOP GMAIL"S POLITICAL SPAM PROPOSAL & KEEP THEIR PLAN FROM OVERLOADING PEOPLES EMAIL BOXES

WITH POLITICAL BS THEY DON"T WANT SENT TO THEIR BOXES!!!!!!! CRAIG CARLSON

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:59:40 PM
From: Karen Berger

To: AO

Subject: Stop Gmail"s Political Spam Proposal

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 5:30:09 PM

Please stop Gmail's political spam proposal.

I am a G-mail customer and I don't want political spam mail in my inbox.

Thank you in advance for your consideration in this matter.

Karen Berger
From: Don Woods

To: AO

Subject: Stop Google

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2022 9:35:51 PM

Please do not allow program that would allow campaign ads to bypass spam filters and instead go straight to your

inbox. This would be a HUGE SCAM.

Don woods, Citizen Voter
From: Jan Jack

To: AO

Subject: Stop political spam

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:19:21 PM

Please stop allowing political spam. Some days I receive so much political spam, it’s difficult to get through it just

to delete, never mind read and be clear what they’re requesting and/or promoting.

Thank you for all you do.

Jan Jack
From: Judy Palmer

To: AO

Subject: Stop political spam.

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:13:02 PM

G-mail needs to be stopped from spreading political spam.

Judy

Sent from my iPad
From: Kristin Kokal

To: AO

Subject: Stop Political Spam

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 3:16:39 PM

It could give unnecessary advantages and it's not needed considering people are already bombarded with political

messages on social media, tv, and newspapers.

Thank you,

Kristin Kokal
From: Kathy Cheer

To: AO

Subject: Stop political spam/ads

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:21:56 PM

I've deluged with requests for money from every state in the Union. It's enough to donate money to California

candidates without those rom the East Coast, southern states, southwest etc. That never used to happy before and

it's a real pain. Great idea to stop them.
From: Fran Terry

To: AO

Subject: stop the gmail spam idea

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 12:59:16 AM

I receive more than 100 spam emails a day - more unsolicited trash of politics or anything else is abhorent.’

It is so bad I am contemplating throwing the computer in the trash.

I want my political freedom to choose and support the candidates for either party as I choose., without being

bombarded by emaials.

What if gmail thinking.

Fran Terry
From: Sherry M

To: AO

Subject: STOP! Gmail"s political spam pollution

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 11:22:29 AM

I realize America is already headed full steam toward "out & out GREED

above all else", HOWEVER, does the people's federal government fully

intend to sponsor this polluted atmosphere of "whatever makes a buck is

fully endorsed by the United States of American Avarice"??!!! We

already have the Supremely United Corporate Court for Kleptocrats

(SUCCKS) and the GOP (Groupies of Plutocracy) - why not just swear into

office the elitist 10% to destroy our country once and for all? Make

it swift! After the sanctioned tyranny of Our Glorious Ruler

Extraordinaire (OGRE) DJT, Jr., a quick death will be a mercy at this point.

Sincerely,

Heartbroken American of over 7 decades who knows what dream we're

losing, what dream is being slaughtered every day by corporate America.

--

It's "glorious, fantastic" Capitalism when it benefits the powerful /

wealthy - Welfare and Socialism when the masses get any share. anonymous

"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others in

order to be seen." Jesus, the Book of Matthew

“And whenever you do pray, do not be like the hypocrites for they love

to stand and pray in synagogues and on the street corners." Jesus,

Matthew:6

"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and

carrying a cross." attributed to Sinclair Lewis

EQUAL RIGHTS for others does not mean fewer rights for you - it's NOT pie!
From: Kenneth Loafman

To: AO

Subject: Unsolicited email is SPAM

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 11:26:14 AM

Hi,

I object to allowing any email that I have not requested and approved. Email that has not been opted-in by the user

is SPAM and Google has been blocking that quite nicely. Allowing political email through will only anger the

already overloaded user and frankly, it could make it harder for Google to retain users.

I know I would set up my own email server under my own SPAM rules if Google started sending me Republican

lies and nonsense. It's an option I could actually spin off into a small side business and use to make some extra cash.

Google, do you want to supply clean email service, or shall we have a battle over SPAM? Remember, anything not

opt-In is SPAM and we'll fight you on that issue.

...Thanks,

...Ken
From: John Asencio

To: AO

Subject: "AO 2022-14." FEC

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:43:51 AM

Absolutely NOT, do not let this happen.
From: Tyrone Scott

To: AO

Subject: "AO 2022-14."

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:32:44 AM

Absolutely not!

Get Outlook for iOS
From: Rock Rote

To: AO

Subject: "AO 2022-14."

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 5:29:32 AM

I object.

Sent from my iPhone
From: Greg and Christine Kleinschmidt

To: AO

Subject: "AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:16:39 AM

No, thank you, to political spam bypass.

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
From: Jen Kim

To: AO

Subject: 2022-14 FEC

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 3:12:33 AM

Please firmly and unequivocally reject the inclusion of FECregistered political committees emails in GMAIL accounts. This is

a terrible idea.

Jennifer Kim Chen
From: Jennifer Hewitt

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 - No. No. No

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:23:23 AM

To whom it may concern,

 No, just no. Spam is spam, by allowing one type of spam to slip through, seems to open a

doorway for all spam to slip in.

 If this is for political purposes, then triple no. Those looking for information on relevant

party or political issues, have the internet at their fingertips. Those not looking for information

should not have got thrown in our faces... or our inboxes.

Please vote no.

Sincerely, your concerned citizen

Jennifer Hewitt
From: Michael O"Connor

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 comment

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:44:14 AM

Greetings,

PLEASE PLEASE, do not approve Google's petition to change their spam policy regarding

political emails.

Opening a crack in the door for unsolicited political messaging serves no one except Google

and unscrupulous politicians.

Thanks,

Michael O'Connor
From: Timothy Swiontek

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 Google No Spam Political Ads

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:23:50 AM

If this happens, I'll quit using Google. It is a horrible idea. As it is, I vote against the people

making the worst ads. I'll start using thow away email accounts again that just collect this

junk. Hello. HOTMAIL and Yahoo mail, I'm baack!
From: Matthew Walker

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 Google"s political spam proposal

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:46:00 AM

Please do not allow Google's proposal to exempt political advertising from email spam filters

(AO 2022-14) to become an accepted practice.
From: Jack Burn

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 is total nonsense!

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:04:22 AM

Unsolicited political email is spam, S P A M!

I don't believe in anyone getting enriched by politics, & this is just another scam to help

spammers trick, deceive, & manipulate the gullible public. Let people donate if they want, but

don't punish people like me who know (or don't believe) that this is in anyone's best interests

who's not making (or wanting to make) a buck (or a $ million) on electioneering.

This punishes us sane people who aren't going to fall for this nonsense,

Respectfully,

James Burn

Prattville, AL 36066

God Bless
From: Bonnie Carter

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 NO!

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:46:37 AM

NO!
From: Paul Rinehart

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14 opposed

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:30:26 AM

Deer appointed representatives of a democratically elected government,

Please do not approve this prioritization of political email. Set a dangerous precedent about

prioritizing any email, especially that of tendentious and non-regulated, lying political

candidates. Second, it strikes me as pandering to the right wing who's complaining about Big

Tech's power.

Paul Rinehart

Kinderhook NY

From: Laura McFarland

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 4:23:13 AM

I am not in support of Google using their email platform to support anyone in the political

arena. Bad idea. I would delete my account if this happened.
From: Susan Ingram

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 4:45:46 AM

Just say NO to unsolicitated political emails. Send them all to the SPAM folder.

Susan E McMican

Sent via the Samsung Galaxy A71 5G, an AT&T 5G smartphone

Get Outlook for Android
From: Encarnacion Montes de Oca

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 4:49:02 AM

This proposal from Google is absolute garbage. Why let them send these types of emails to me

to begin with?

If I wanted political emails, I would request them. Not forced upon me by Google.

Do the right thing and keep politics out of personal email.

Leave that choice up to people, not corporations.
From:

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 5:07:00 AM

Simply stated no - I already get enough unsolicited political phone calls. I don't need email!

John Lusk

From: Nevin Leiby

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 5:12:48 AM

Hello FEC,

I think that this proposed change is an incredibly poor idea. Email is a primary means of communication for

many personal and business communication, meanwhile, it is continually clouded and spammed by a

multitude of messages that aren't promotional.

It is an absolute mistake to try to increase the volume of unsolicited mail that has to be sorted through.

Oftentimes, these emails are transmitted at low or no cost to the sender, so I would expect an explosion of

these emails to occur. With that, it is not uncommon that these emails are phishing emails which attempt to

take down corporate networks and cripple them while demanding ransomware payments. Ransomware and

other similar techniques are a continual and ever-growing threat to our personal, business and national

security.

This has become such a problem at some institutions, such as within healthcare, that many web-based email

sites, such as Gmail, are inaccessible which is a tremendous barrier to comminication on a daily basis.

Please reject this proposed legislation.

Thank you

Dr Nevin Leiby

Emergency Medicine
From: Lon

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 5:41:39 AM

Do not let google do this it’s insulting it’s wrong it’s bad

I hope you understand how I feel about this.

Best, Lon J
From: Steve Wisniewski

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 5:56:53 AM

Regarding the above request by Google to let political political spam through and not be able to be detected by spam

detectors, I cannot tell how much I *vehemently* oppose this. I use a Google e-mail address daily. I do not want

spam from any political party, be it Democrat, Republican, Independent or otherwise. Do not let this money grab by

Google happen.

I am sending this from a non-Google account just in case Google is monitoring their outbound e-mail and would

suppress this being sent. My main e-mail address has a gmail.com domain.

Thank you.

Sent from my iPhone
From: Paul McCormick

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:06:03 AM

Do NOT under any circumstances allow this to happen
From: Alexandra Bradley

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:29:56 AM

Please do NOT allow political emails to avoid spam filters.

It is bad enough political calls are not subject to the rules of the Do Not Call List, now you're

thinkof giving them free rein of citizens emails? The vitriol, outright lies and ridiculous

claims of many politicians exceed the worst charlatans, I need less exposure not more.

It would be preferable for Google to send all political emails, except those the receiver has

signed up for/whitelisted, to a new folder "political emails." Based on my knowledge of the

Republicans complaints, this would ensure everyone is treated equally.

Thank You,

A. M. Bradley
From: Jason G

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:33:06 AM

As it relates to AO 2022-14, I am 100% opposed.

Jason Gauthier
From: Corey K

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:42:14 AM

Please do not grant this request. Thank you.
From: Mark Duval

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:55:51 AM

Please reject Google’s request

Mark Duval

Virginia
From: Carrianne Brogan

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:56:52 AM

This is in rreference to AO 2022-14. I reject the idea of allowing political ad

emails to automatically be allowed to fall into my everyday Gmail inbox

when they should go directly to my spam folder. I am not saying they need

to go directly to my trash. If they go to my spam folder, it is not censorship.

It just moves it to a category of solicitation, which is what political ads

are... a solicitation for my vote, which I do not want in my regular inbox.

Keep political ads in spam.

Best,

Carrianne Brogan Brookins
From: leigh britt

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:06:57 AM

I almost never watch regular TV because of political ads. If Google does this to my email, I

may have to leave a service I very much like for Outlook.
From: Ann Sandor

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:10:34 AM

Absolutely do not permit Google to exempt political emails in Gmail from

spam or report data to political groups. 

VA Sandor

Sent from my iPhone
From: Dean Emmerson

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:16:15 AM

I am writing to ask that you reject the proposal by Google that they pilot a program to exempt

email from political groups from the spam detection processes. Unsolicited email from

political groups is time consuming and frustrating to read and manage. I am also concerned at

the possibility that Google then send analytic information to those senders about my

interaction with those messages.

I object to this proposal in its entirety and ask that you reject it.

Dean Emmerson
From: Ken Wiser

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:17:23 AM

AO 2022-14

PLEASE DO NOT GRANT THIS!
From: Alessandro Miano

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:22:07 AM

Please stop google from practicing biased email filtering as it would be a clear conflict of

interest between the consumer and the provider

Regards,

Alex Miano

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this email, including any attachment(s), is confidential

information that may be privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law, and is intended only for the exclusive

use by the person(s) mentioned above as recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any

disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If

you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety,

whether in electronic or hard copy format.

From: Rafael Ibanez

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:23:52 AM

Please don't do this. I get enough emails from political parties and i don't even live in the US

anymore. I always unsubscribe and it doesn't work because i am a registered voter for

presidential elections (and still paying taxes) , but not for the state i used to live in (and no

longer paying taxes). at least have a paid option to avoid it. i pay for more space, they could at

least add on an extra "to not disturb" option
From: anna pontoni

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:24:50 AM

Please do not lift the spam filter for political emails. I use my email for business and do not

want to spend my day deleting emails that I did not ask for and do not need.
From: Aimee Schenkel

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:26:40 AM

I unequivocally protest any political email bypassing the spam filters.

I don't care from which party it comes

Regards,

Aimee
From: Tracy

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:27:10 AM

Political fund raising ads have no place or love in my inbox. Treat them like they are,

SPAM. 

From: Gabriela Gallentine

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:31:02 AM

I object to the Google proposal of allowing political SPAM to bypass filters.

This is a TERRIBLE IDEA.

DO NOT GRANT THIS.
From: Nic B

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:36:08 AM

I emphatically oppose allowing unsolicited political or campaign emails to bypass spam

filters. Please, have some common courtesy, we deal with enough BS already.

Niccolo Burgi
From: Stephen Girardi

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:40:30 AM

Regarding the request by Google to loosen spam push through emails from political parties or

candidates. ABSOLUTELY NOT!!

Enough of this bullshit. We get too much garbage in our emails. We don't need more crap

filling up our inboxes, especially from political Charlatans!

No on AO-2022-14
From: Jay Kloecker

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:41:50 AM

To whom it may concern,

Allowing Google to prioritize political emails, would basically mean that

Google was providing a large political donation to every politician sending

emails to Gmail addresses. We are bombarded with spam from multiple

companies every day. Do not allow this to compound the problem.

Please firmly and unequivocally reject this request -- it is a terrible idea.

John Kloecker
From: Erena Anderson

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:42:23 AM

I just read about Google 's desire to cave to political pressure and allow spam in our inboxes.

I cannot stress how bad an idea this is. No, no, no, no, no.

I'm already getting spammed by politicians in my SPAM folder 4,6,8 times a day-EACH.

They're relentless.

This is a bad idea. Please don't let Google do this.

Regards,

Erena Anderson
From: Deborah Metz

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:47:53 AM

Regarding the proposal allowing political email to bypass Spam: That is a terrible idea. Just

say no.
From: Ziggy 66

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:52:44 AM

Please, Please, Please don’t allow Google to change their spam rules to allow political e-mails

through. I have enough spam and I don’t care what Republican’s or Democrat’s have to say in

their political ads.

Thanks,

Jeremy Z

FF/Paramedic

Deerfield - Bannockburn Fire

Pension Fund President

MABAS 3 Haz Mat Director of Operations

Union Secretary Local 4632

Please excuse any typos this was sent from my iPad

”Respect science, respect nature, respect each other.” -Hal Harvey

From: Dale K

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:03:02 AM

The fact that Google has requested permission to allow political advertisements through their

SPAM filter, is an admission that those emails are Infact "Spam". Why would you even

consider allowing Google to violate a federal regulation?

If you allow Google to let this garbage through their Spam filter, then to avoid discriminatory

practices, you would need to allow all e*mail exchanges the same permission. This would

completely negate and contradict all intentions of the regulation. JUST SAY NO!!
From: David

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:03:40 AM

Absolutely 'NO' regarding allowing politicians to bypass my spam filter. Last thing I need is either party's drivel and

rhetoric. Already hard enough tuning them out everywhere else.
From: Ray Anderson

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:05:51 AM

Google's request: AO 2022-14

I OPPOSE this request to allow unsolicited political requests not to go to GMAIL SPAM 

Ray Anderson
From: Scott Grissom

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:07:59 AM

I am unequivocally opposed to allowing political email through the gmail spam filter. Please do not allow this

proposal to pass.

Sincerely,

Scott Grissom

Sent from my iPhone
From: Andrew Smith

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:10:45 AM

To whom it may concern,

Good morning. I just read an article published by Inc. that describes a proposal by Google to

allow political emails to avoid spam detection.

The proposal is apparently referenced by request AO 2022-14.

I am writing to voice my strong opposition to this proposal. The last thing anyone needs is to

have their inbox flooded with political spam garbage. Please block this "pilot program" from

happening.

Sincerely,

Andrew Smith
From: Jennifer Mason

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:13:21 AM

AO 2022-14

Google spam filter work around for politicians is beyond not fair. I already

have a congressman who calls my phone weekly to invite me to town halls

that I can’t get rid of. I have never ending snail mail asking me for money,

but almost all the political emails go to spam so I don’t have to hear from

them. PLEASE DONT DO THIS!! It’s a terrible idea.

Jenn Mason
From: Brendan McTague

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:15:08 AM

Please reject this proposal. Spam is a scurge on my daily existence and even after

unsubscribing from thousands of emails, I still get them.

Political emails aren’t a public good. Please say NO to this proposal.

Brendan McTague
From: Daniel Fillion

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:15:19 AM

I strongly oppose the effort to exempt political emails from undergoing a spam filter in gmail

or any other electronic mail provider.

Very respectfully,

Daniel Fillion

-- 

Captain Daniel E. Fillion, U.S. Navy
From: Andrew Thompson

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:17:57 AM

This proposal is an awful idea and harmful to consumers. There are spam filters for a reason

and it is too catch emails like these: unsolicited, mass emails requesting money. It is less

onerous for people to check their spam folders for emails than it is for people to continuous

report spam emails on every unwanted political ad that is allowed through. Please do not

approve of or allow google to do this.

Andrew Thompson
From: Pamela Dressell

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:20:39 AM

Do not approve Google request AO 2022-14

Pamela Dressell
From: Jay Urbanczyk

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:21:10 AM

Please DO NOT ALLOW this action by google. Spam is out of control as it is. This would

only increase this amount by ten times or more. I am smart enough to make up my own mind

without the candidates making my life way more miserable than it already is.
From: Dan Myers

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:32:57 AM

I do not want any unsolicited political email! I have already a huge problem with unsolicited political phone calls.

Do NOT allow another avenue for politics to spam me. Do not allow google to let political emails bypass spam

detection!
From: J Fahey

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:33:22 AM

Please no spam. No extra political emails. If the GOP is concerned that more Dems open

emails and donate to Dems it’s not because of google algorithms. It’s because more Dems are

literate informed voters who want to be on the right side of history and are tired of the GOP

extremist ideology in our country.

Thank you for not giving google users over to the Republican cry babies.

Gmail user,

JS Fahey

-- 

Jenn
From: Greg Steiger

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:37:23 AM

Please do not approve this.
From: Jeffrey Hurwitz

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:37:39 AM

We all know money speaks and I'm sure the Republican machine has funded Google with a

lot. Political emails should fall under the same rubric as all other junk mail. They should not

get special favors no matter how much money they provide a Google.Please don't let any

changes happen.

Sincerely, Jeffrey Hurwitz
From: chris greiser

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:37:54 AM

I’m writing to strongly request that you reject Google’s proposal to exempt political emails from their spam filters.

Emails from spam filters amounts to unpaid political donations to political candidates on a per-email basis. As

considered, there is no provision to ensure equal representation of all candidates and there are no protections for

recipients as to quantity, quality, or truthfulness of the content. Further, without provisions to opt in to filtering if a

comprehensive way, the proposal creates overhead for users that is not welcome.

If you do approve, this opens the door to reduced filtering for all email providers and can lead to loss of overall

utility for email (for example, I already don’t answer any calls because of spam and I largely ignore my paper mail

during election periods).

Thanks in advance for rejecting the proposal.

Chris Greiser
From: Doug Joubert

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:39:07 AM

RE: Google reference #"AO 2022-14

Please do not pass this spam bypass exception.

Allowing Google to prioritize political emails would basically mean that Google was

providing a large political donation to every politician sending emails to a Gmail address.

-- 

Dj
From: Luis Arteaga

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:39:14 AM

Please do not permit more political spam ads in our inbox mail. We got enough of it even with

filters and other measures.

If gmail will go ahead with the idea to please politicals millonaires, i will delete gmail from

my phone and change from email provider.
From: kjheidel

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:39:25 AM

Please do NOT approve this request.

Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
From: HP D

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:41:32 AM

Please, Do NOT approve this request. We get enough Spam mail already

TY
From: Sam Ortiz

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:41:53 AM

As a long time gmail user, I sincerely and passionately request that Google not be permitted to

exempt political messages from its spam filters. If I wish to receive them, I will happily

unmark them myself as spam. 

Sam Ortiz
From: Joanne Dorman

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:42:06 AM

Please stop with the spam already!

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
From: duncang55

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:48:07 AM

Political emails are unwanted spam in the first place, are basically a mechanism to dupe

people into sending money to grifters (looking at you GOP), and can readily be subscribed to

(opt-in, if you will) if one is stupid enough to believe your money will be used to help you (or

anyone else).

Under no circumstances allow Google to let this spam through.

Duncan Gardner

Milton, FL
From:

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:50:00 AM

Regarding the above proposal number from Google. This is a terrible idea. I would not ever

want my physical mailbox blown up with mail from political candidates and the same goes for

my email. The current political landscape is too full of hate to want to see a flood of emails I'd

have to see. As the emails in question would be actively spammed put in large batches, fitting

the very description of spam with unsolicited emails, I implore you to deny this request.

Its unfortunate that Google doesn't realize this, but this type of change to their product could

result in a mass exodus from their product for a more stable non invasive email service.

Thank You,

Jamie D. Eddy

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
From: Casey Dougall

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:51:32 AM

Please do not allow this plan to be approved. I’m a long time GMail user and do not approve

the idea that some email can be treated differently than others.

I also work for a company and personally support systems that sends out millions of emails

every day.

To say that emails from politicians should not go through the same SPAM rule sets of emails

i’m personally responsible for ensuring delivery for is a slap in the face for the work I do in

my field.

Please deny this request.

Thank you.

Casey Dougall
From: Jerona Rykunyk

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:52:50 AM

This is a terrible proposal. Do not approve
From: Jackie Amigone

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:52:58 AM

To the FEC,

I vehemently and emphatically oppose allowing political emails to bypass Google's SPAM

filters. Do not allow this this action.

With respect.
From: Alexander Ho

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:53:40 AM

Good morning FEC representative:

I am registering my opinion to object to Google's pilot program for their Gmail service to "test

new features in email product to authorized candidate committees, political party committees,

and leadership political action committees."

Sincerely,

Alexander Ho
From: Bill Gelgota

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:59:01 AM

Dear FEC: Do NOT allow Google to exempt political emails from SPAM filters. As noted

by others, “Allowing [G]oogle to prioritize political emails ... would basically mean that

Google was providing a large political donation to every politician sending emails to Gmail

addresses."

Sincerely,

William A Gelgota

Sent from my iPhone
From: Robert M

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:59:19 AM

This is a terrible proposal. Do not allow google to exempt political ads from spam filters. If I

choose to contribute to a political party or candidate I will without my inbox being flooded

with umwanted fundraising SPAM!
From: John Joseph

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:02:30 AM

Please, PLEASE reject Google's insane request to exclude political emails from its Spam

filter.

Most of the 50+ political emails I received daily are fundraising emails from politicians I've

never even heard of and would never support. In fact most of them I can't even vote for

because they're not in my district or state.

Please help retain a bit of sanity to email.

John Joseph

San Antonio, Texas
From: Kevin Kelly

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:02:43 AM

Regarding AO 2022-14, please NO !!!!

I get enough garbage / spam now and political garbage would only add to the heap / be much worse.

No, no, no !

Thank you.

Sent from my iPhone

Kevin Kelly


From: Ricci Greenwood

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:05:55 AM

If this is an attempt to have anything come to my email without spam folder catching the

information first it's a bad idea. If I want some entity to communicate with me "I " will give

them my email address.

The unsubscribe button is helpful. Don't add more "Junk".

Ricci
From: Alan Pine

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:07:08 AM

PLEASE do not allow any political emails to be immune from spam
From: Gregg Garcia

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:07:16 AM

No. Absolutely not. Keep all of that junk going to Spam.

Gregg Garcia

Sent from my iPhone
From: M.mar301

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:13:53 AM

Removing the auto-spam label from political messages — especially ones that have already been labeled spam by

the recipient is cruel and unusual punishment. It reduces effectiveness of e-mail as a communication and work tool,

and can lead to missed important messages.

Any politician who claims somehow Gmail is curbing more emails from one party than another is working from

misleading data and “alternative facts.” As in distorting the truth.

Email is a virtually free form of communications for political parties, and unleashing this mess could literally

inundate recipients emails with hundreds or thousands of messages per day. Believe this.

I’ve hit “unsubscribe” from certain email lists 25 times, and have documentation to prove it. And those emails

continue at twice the rate as before, and now hit multiple email accounts.

Mark
From: Catherine Mahoney

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:15:13 AM

Please DO NOT exempt unsolicited political email from spam.

I'll miss you, but if I have to designate each individually, I'll probably just opt for the easier

option of not using Gmail at all.
From: Margo go go go Go

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:16:46 AM

My opinion is that I do NOT want political emails in my inbox. If Google changed their policy

and I start getting them- I'm done with Google. I would be happy to never hear from our about

another politician in my life. The more I distance myself from government the happier I find

myself. You didn't ask this but while we're on the subject: Politicians are self centered greedy

hypocritical liars who live in a fantasy world. Stay far away from me. Thank you. Margo

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From: Betsy Rack

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:16:53 AM

Please do not allow Google to send political emails that bypass the spam

filters per "AO 2022-14." This is a terrible idea and will be a violation of

users' privacy and the sanctity of our inboxes, which is already strained.

Regards,

Elizabeth Rack

Durham, NC
From: Rozi Daie

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:17:02 AM

NO. NO. NO.

Please do not pass this.

Thank you!
From: Ken Sari

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:17:26 AM

Please don't allow this. Censorship belongs to the individual, not to outside groups of any

kind.
From: Stephanie Wilds

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:21:35 AM

Loyal Google user here..... please do not approve! My inbox is not a political fundraising

tool!

Stephanie Wilds

"Be afraid; do it anyway" - Jason Isbel
From: Jess Barnes

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:24:05 AM

Please do not allow unsolicited political mail through the spam filters.

Please.

Jess Barnes
From: Theresa Hadden-Martinez

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:28:16 AM

I am the only one to evaluate what I want to be classified as spam. Political ads

are spam for the following reasons

1. The email was unsolicited from someone I do not know

2. The email attempts to get me to send them money

3. The email frequently contains tracking technology to see if I read it.

Please do NOT approve this plan to prioritize political emails and put them in

my inbox and not my spam folder.

Theresa Hadden-Martinez
From: Mary Anne Cupp

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:29:31 AM

To whom it may concern,

I it a disastrous idea to all allow political messages to bypass spam folders in gmail!!! Please

say NO.

Concerned citizen,

Mary Anne Cupp
From: Brian Troutt

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:31:01 AM

If you'd like to register my opinion AGAINST allowing political emails to bypass spam

status. As an IT professional in the data protection industry, anything that lowers the

thresholds for filtering legitimate emails inevitably increases the amount of copycat emails

that will get through that are not legitimate or just downright malicious. Instead of forcing

billions of Gmail users to opt-out of every single email suddenly allowed to bypass the spam

filters, I believe it should remain the responsibility of the political groups to have their

followers opt-in...like any other non-political group in the country.

Sincerely,

Wm Brian Troutt
From: Peter Perez

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:33:27 AM

The definition of spam email is:

"Email spam, also referred to as junk email or simply spam, is unsolicited messages sent in

bulk by email."

Political email ads are spam. Just because it comes from a political hopeful doesn't make it any

less unsolicited bulk email.

This is simple. Don't drown us in spam.
From: Jeff Gates

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:35:53 AM

Regarding AO 2022-14, I am against Google’s suggestion to send political emails directly into our inbox. This then

becomes a political contribution to the sender of that email.

Jeff Gates
From: Gail Bromer

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:37:52 AM

Please do not allow this to go forward. Allowing political spam to bi-pass the spam filter and

head straight into my inbox is putting money directly into the pockets of these politicians who

would at least otherwise have had to pay to reach google users. I do NOT want to receive

anymore emails from

Politicians. I already receive far too many unsolicited requests for donations.

Gail Bromer

Black Mountain NC
From:

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:38:43 AM

To Whom It May Concern,

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHOULD YOU GRANT THIS REQUEST TO Google. PLEASE DENY THIS

REQUEST.

Thank you,

Rick Couture

Sent from my iPhone
From: Woody Stone

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:40:08 AM

Please do not great Google’s request to have political adds bypass Spam email filters! If

political parties wish to inundate us with negative adds (as almost all current adds are!), make

them pay for snail mail!

Elwood Stone

Sandia Park, NM
From: Ari Afek

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:40:54 AM

We should be looking for ways to bridge the political divide that has brought our congress to

a stand still and created an "us vs. Them" rift in the fabric of our society. Approving this

would only line politicians pockets and therefore fund more ads that fuel the divide. Please

protect our Great Nation.

From: Bonnie C

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:43:42 AM

NO!
From: Jim McLaughlin

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:44:04 AM

Do not grant Google’s request. I want less spam NOT more! In fact, I want the ability to have MORE control over

my data and my privacy!!! I want to be able to limit the right of Google and others to track my digital footprint and

my data!!!
From: Toni Greene

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:45:33 AM

To whom it may concern,

I do not support the change to allow unsolicited political emails to not be automatically

flagged as spam by should not be allowed under any circumstance.

The sheer amount of misinformation, purposeful lies, and conspiracy theories started

and/or propagated by politicians should not be allow to be so easily disseminated via

email.

This change would be Google allowing ‘spam’ and political money scams to appear in

anyone’s inbox and has huge implications. The game becomes who can get the most

emails out to billions of people while putting the onus on billions of people to

individually block the spam.

Do what today’s politicians are NOT doing and listen to the majority of the

respondents regarding this change.

Please firmly and unequivocally reject ... This is a terrible idea.

Kind Regards,

Toni Greene
From: Ann Wilbur

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:53:55 AM

Regarding Google request AO 2022-14

Google should be protecting the public, not political parties. And what proof is there

that only Republican political emails are treated as spam under the present system?

Is that true? Perhaps the titles and words used in Republican ads ping the spam

software? 

Please protect us from the deluge of political ads! Please do not accept this

proposal. Please DENY this proposal!!
From: Dale DeVoe

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:55:07 AM

Dear sirs,

The amount of data collected for free by Google already, is terribly invasive. I highly value

what little privacy I have and absolutely DO NOT want any POLITICAL EMAILS

ALLOWED. I get tons of spoof and phishing attempt that are not caught as spam. Allowing

Political ads will only make it worse. I have been a Gmail user for over a decade. I would hate

to incur another fee and change my address on hundreds of sites just to prevent getting

political ads and more fraudulent emails.
From: Dale Gibbins

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:55:34 AM

Absolutely not. This is a terrible idea. Do not allow Google to do this.

This is just more corporate/political overreach.

Dale Gibbins
From:

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:56:37 AM

I’m completely against this request. DO NOT allow!!!!
From: Bryan Parkinson

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:57:31 AM

Dear Sir,

Having recently read about a proposed change to GMail I felt it necessary to voice my opinion.

Unless Google are going to have an opt out clause for political emails there is no way that this

should be allowed.

There is still, already, a surprising amount of emails that "sneak through under the radar".

Anyone who wants to access political propaganda can join a party and sign up for it. 

Don't let Google decide what is "good" for us.

Yours sincerely

Bryan Parkinson
From:

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:58:03 AM

No. No. No. No. No.

The definition of spam is undesired / unwanted / unrequested / non value added email, which

is exactly what these politically focused emails are.

I do not want to spend MY time deleting spam email so that extremely wealthy corporations

can acquire more wealth. I have other, more productive, uses for my limited time.

If Republican political email is being filtered more that Democratic, bring forth the proof,

rather than the usual <and often baseless> assertions. If valid, have Google correct the

algorithm appropriately.

Again. No. No. No. No.

Thanks for your attention.

Brad Scarlett

Buford, GA

Sent from my OnePlus 8T 5G
From: Aimee Morgan (Wright)

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:43:38 AM

This request by Google should be denied!
From: Mark Aubuchon

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:36:43 AM

Please firmly and unequivocally reject ... This is a terrible idea.

Thanks,

Mark Aubuchon
From: Richard Dollison

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:54:05 AM

I am asking that the FEC reject Google's request to allow political messages to be unmarked as

spam. AO 2022-14.
From: Ron Reiswig

To: AO

Cc:

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:06:45 AM

Please do not let gmail send political spam directly to our inboxes. Don’t care what political party is sending them.

Just say no!

Sent from my iPhone
From: Norhi Folsom

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:32:52 AM

Regarding political emails not being subject or spam detection and goi g directly to inbox,

ABSOLUTELY OPPOSE. Please, DO NOT GRANT THIS REQUEST. 

Thank you,

Norhi Folsom

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The information contained in this transmission may be confidential. It is intended only for the

use of the individual or entity named above and must be treated as confidential. If the reader of

this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination,

distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this

communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail.
From: Gregory Hathaway

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:54:18 AM

I've recently been informed about the possibility of my email being "bombarded" with

political advertising!... I see enough "SPAM" as it is and strongly object to this.

RespectfulRespectfully

Gregory Hathaway
From: Rick Raugewitz

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:27:31 AM

To the group.

Regarding AO 2022-14. I am unequivocally opposed to allowing political

adds to bypass the spam filters.

If people want to sign up on email lists for their candidates; that’s fine

However, unsolicited emails from any group or company is spam.

Rick Raugewitz

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From: Idan Benaim

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 3:11:50 AM

Unsolicited email is spam, regardless of the source. No email should be treated differently just

because the sender is

registered as a political committee.

While some people have options besides Gmail for receiving email, others do not. As well,

granting this request

likely would start a trend that leads to political committees and individual politicians to

demand such special

treatment be required of all email providers.
From: Grisela Torregrosa

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14." Please do do not change how political emails are filtered to spam. I do not want that crap.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:27:53 AM
From: lmbutler09

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 3:59:56 AM

I want to express my opinion please,

No,no,no.

Please do not allow Google to send these emails

Thank you,

Lisa Butler
From: Steve Adkins

To: AO

Subject: ao 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:32:52 AM

DO NOT GRANT......
From: Samantha Aldana

To: AO

Subject: AO-2022 -14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:59:14 AM

No. I don’t want to see any more political ads. They make me sick to my stomach. Politicians

do nothing to serve the public and I hate being reminded of that every time I want to watch a

video.
From: Peter Grul

To: AO

Subject: AO2022-14 (google request to allow political spam)

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:34:05 AM

Hello,

Spam is spam, and should be filtered as vigorously as possible regardless of its source.

Please reject Google's "15-page letter to the Federal Election Commission asking for an

advisory opinion on a plan to start exempting some political emails in Gmail from spam."*

Thank you for your consideration.

regards,

-Peter Grul

*https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/google-revealed-plans-for-a-big-change-to-gmail-thatalmost-nobody-wants-you-have-19-days-to-object.html
From: Kelly McEuen

To: AO

Subject: AO-2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:27:58 AM

Unsolicited email topics from senders whom I am not interested are spam. That includes

political parties, candidates and elected officials. Approving Google's request to circumvent

traditional handling of spam communication simply erodes my freedom of choice. Please deny

Google's request

Kelly McEuen
From: Suzette Turner

To: AO

Subject: AO2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:27:21 AM

Strongly object to proposal
From: Paul Gallner

To: AO

Subject: AO-2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 5:29:41 AM

I am opposed to the requested change to the way spam Email is routed on Gmail.com

Thank you
From: Sharon Soliday

To: AO

Subject: AO20221-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:57:12 AM

Please! Do NOT let Google allow political ads to bypass Spam filters.

If i want to get it, i will have signed up so it wouldn't be spam.

Please don't let Google do this.

Sharon Rolin

Portland, OR
From: Rachel Arnott

To: AO

Subject: AOR 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:03:54 AM

To Whom It May Concern:

I would like to respectfully request the FEC deny AOR 2022-14. Political requests for

donations are no different than solicitations from any public or private company or non-profit

organization. I do not want these filling up my inbox. It has become clear my data was sold

and I get hundreds of these emails (and text messages) weekly.

Google is essentially proposing selling more of my data by allowing political non-profits to

access "inboxing data" to know if their emails are sent to spam. Users can only "opt out" of

receiving emails from that sender. I believe users should be empowered to fully opt in or out

of this pilot program, or future full scale program.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Rachel Arnott

San Francisco Resident
From: Ron Z

To: AO

Subject: Comment in AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:33:24 AM

No. I do not want MY email address to be used by people I did not give permission to use it.

Political emails are junk mail and should continue to be filtered out so I don't have to sort the

detritus.

Ron
From: Brian Bledsoe

To: AO

Subject: Comment on proposal: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:08:10 AM

Regarding Google’s proposal case file AO 2022-14, I strongly and un-categorically support REJECTION of this

proposal.

There is no interest among the US public being pestered, inconvenienced and harassed by the Political email

handling suggested by Google.

Again this is unsupported and request that this proposal be absolutely DENIED.

Thank you.
From: Adam Bellinger

To: AO

Subject: Do not allow AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:51:54 AM

Do not allow this action to take place and allow us to keep our inboxes free of garbage.

– iPhoned this in
From: Julia Wallington

To: AO

Subject: Gmail changed

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:36:17 AM

Do not agree to change spam structure !!
From: Gary Main

To: AO

Subject: Google AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:55:47 AM

No.No.No.

And No Again.
From: Larry Knop

To: AO

Subject: Google Pilot

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022 11:59:13 PM

Dear Ms. Stevenson and Mr. Stipanovic:

Please do not approve the Google pilot program for political garbage. Even

a single false political e-mail at a crucial time in a political campaign can

have devastating results. I do not want to have to Unsubscribe to political

garbage that I did not want in my inbox in the first place.

 Sincerely, Larry Knop, Professor of Mathematics Emeritus
From: Chris Ryba

To: AO

Subject: Google political email spam detector

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:20:38 AM

You must keep political ads from being delivered to my inbox. They are the most sincere

definition of spam.
From: Amanda Brilliante

To: AO

Subject: GOOGLE request AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:59:51 AM

Allowing Google to prioritize political emails ... would basically mean that

Google was providing a large political donation to every politician sending

emails to Gmail addresses.

DO NOT ALLOW THIS!
From: Eddy Richards

To: AO

Subject: Google request reference # AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 4:56:34 AM

No!! Do not allow unsolicited political content to spam our emails!

This greatly increases the risks to cyber security threats and invasion of privacy.

Sent from my ePhone
From: Cecei Whiteside

To: AO

Subject: Google request: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:42:17 AM

NO, NO, NO and NO!!!!!
From: Cathy Erdman

To: AO

Subject: Google request: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:00:19 AM

FEC,

Please, for the love of anything holy, NO!!! Do not allow google's plan to move forward.

What this request amounts to is an ongoing attempt by greedy politicos to beg, buy and

harangue consumers into subsidizing their political bullshit. It's the email equivalent of

allowing robo-calls. It rewards the continued degradation of our political discourse towards

fear and hate mongering and makes it easy for people sowing bigotry and half-assed lies to

reach a captive audience with no choice in the matter.

Do your job and protect consumers from these leeches. Say no. Unequivocally, no. 

Cathy Erdman

Janesville, WI.

Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

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From: Paul Allen Newell

To: AO

Cc:

Subject: google wanting to allow any and all political emails to bypass spam filters

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 2:28:22 AM

If I read the info correctly, Google wants to allow political emails to

bypass spam filters. You have to be kidding me. In this highly charged

day and age, political emails are some of the most important emails to

go through spam filters.

Please tell Google "no way"
From: Ned Smith

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:41:07 AM

Dear Sirs,

I oppose the concept of AO 2022-14 completely.

Ned Smith

Concerned Citizen
From: Colin Lester

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request reference AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 4:52:58 AM

To whom it concerns,

Regarding Google's request. Please firmly and unequivocally reject this. It

is a terrible idea. Current spam criteria works well.

Thank you!

Colin Lester
From: Mike Palko

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request to exempt political e-mails from spam designation:AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:54:47 AM

Attachments: Screenshot 20220717-084058.png

Do not exempt any!
From: Thomas Herman

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request, "AO 2022-14."

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:01:21 AM

No, no, no! Please don't allow Google or force Google to classify political spam as "not

spam"! This is a terrible idea!!!

From: Jean Evans

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request: "AO 2022-14."

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 5:58:19 AM

No I don’t want political emails in my inbox.

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legal advice. Do not include confidential or sensitive information in any email communication. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure,

copying, or use of the contents is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us and delete the message without copying or

disclosing it. Neither the signature block nor the fact of this email itself constitute or is intended to constitute an offer or accept an offer, or to modify

any existing contract or waive any right of any person or entity.

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making any transfer of funds. Pearson Smith Realty recommends that you do not follow any wiring directions without at least first making a telephone

call to the title company or other recipient confirming payment directions.
From: John Twigg

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request: "AO 2022-14."

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:44:13 AM

Dear FEC;

Please reject this request for Google to be able to exempt political advertising from being

classified as spam. Nobody needs or wants this to happen.

Thank you,

John Twigg

least first making a telephone call to the title company or other recipient confirming payment

directions.
From: Laura Field

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request: "AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:38:32 AM

Please don't allow this.

Thank you,

Laura Field

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From: Karl McFarland

To: AO

Subject: Google"s request: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 4:21:13 AM

Against this proposal - an unsolicited email for donations is spam, and spam is spam

regardless, which political party sends it
From: David Memel

To: AO

Subject: In reference to Google"s request: "AO 2022-14."

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:59:50 AM

I strenuously object to Google‘s proposal to permit unsolicited political emails to come directly to my inbox. I

consider this a complete violation of my right to privacy and political choice. I am wholly not in favor of granting

their request.

David S. Memel
From: luke goedecke

To: AO

Subject: No political messages

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:48:31 AM

Do not send any political messages endorsements advertisements to my email address. 100%

NO NO NO

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE IF THIS IS WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED
From: Ralph Rodgers

To: AO

Subject: No politician deserves free reign over my email

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:01:12 AM

Do NOT fuck with privacy you cowardly money loving fuck faces. You pieces old shit are

exactly the problem in every situation.... You are the problem in the world.
From: Chantalvona

To: AO

Subject: No to AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:28:53 AM

Political spam is still spam. Giving political email spam from any political

committee special treatment will diminish my trust in your brand. Enabling

this greatly unwanted communication to thwart spam detection and hit

inboxes which were thought to be protected from it will stress, annoy,

bother, intrude on privacy.

I thought Google existed to serve the individual not political groups.

Come on, be better than this.
From: William Carroll

To: AO

Subject: Objection to AO 2022-14: Political Email Proposal

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:43:24 AM

Please don't authorize Google's request to have to have political emails by-pass Spam email

logic. Please consider the two issues below.

1. My experience has been that in the majority of cases where I have received political email

messages it is because my email address was sold to the political entity. In many cases you

cannot opt out of having a company share your email address unless you choose not to use

their website to obtain information or purchase a product. This is essentially an opt in first and

opt out by clicking a link at the bottom of an email. Even when you opt out using the link in

the email it doesn't prevent your email address from being shared.

2. The current spam logic doesn't prevent delivery of political email or my ability to go into

the spam folder to find and view the messages. Normal behavior for me is to scan through the

spam folder for messages that I was to have in my inbox (opt in) before permanently deleting

the messages in the folder. Therefore any messages political, commercial or personal that are

mistakenly added to the folder I can remove and add those to my contacts list to prevent them

from going into that folder in the future giving me (opt in control of the Inbox folder)

If the government feels there is a need to protect political email messages then it should pass a

regulation requiring all email companies to create an email politics folder. Then create a

process for which all political entities can register an email address with the FEC and this

would guarantee that their messages are directed to all users political email folder.

The current spam logic is the last opportunity for the implementation of an opt in approach for

my email inbox. Again please do not authorize Google's proposal AO 2022-14.

Thank You
From: Michael Bennett

To: AO

Subject: Objection to Gmail political emails

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:13:24 AM

I vehemently object to Google's request: "AO 2022-14."

I do not want unsolicited emails of any type in my inbox but especially not political emails.

These are spam and should be retained as spam and not allowed to go straight to my inbox.

Thank you

Michael Bennett

Voter, California

-- 

Michael Bennett

Sent from my mobile device
From: cgfoster8273

To: AO

Subject: Oppose Google political email plan

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:36:04 AM

I oppose Google's plan to send unsolicited political ads to my Gmail. The plan is an invasion

of my privacy, unwanted, and has absolutely no benefit to me. The FEC should protect

consumer privacy rights, not corporate profiteers and politicians.

Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
From: M Rausch

To: AO

Subject: Please do NOT allow Google"s request: "AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:20:22 AM

Please do NOT allow Google's request: "AO 2022-14

DO. NOT. ALLOW. POLITICAL. SPAM!!!!

How could the FCC EVER think this was a good idea for the PEOPLE of the United States

that you serve?!?

The ONLY entities benefiting from such a self-serving idea are the (dividend, and NOT public

service-oriented) corporations (Google?!?..)....and the political parties who ALREADY

inundate us with decisive (vs useful) campaign drivel thanks to our abysmal failure in this

country to control campaign financing!!!

...DON'T LET THE FCC BECOME AN ENABLER OF EVEN FURTHER POLITICAL

ATROCITIES!!!

...PLEASE!!!...Serve the people of this country VS political ambitions and greed!!!

....From: A career military officer, and a former civil servant of combined service of over 39

years, who LIKE YOU, swore an oath to serve!

Matt
From: Vicki Kirby

To: AO

Subject: Political Emails to Spam

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:31:49 AM

In regards to Google's request: "AO 2022-14," please send ALL political

Emails to Spam. If it ends up being an individual choice, please send ALL

political Emails to MY spam folder.

Sincerely,

Vicki Kirby
From: Gregor Bailar

To: AO

Subject: Political Spam AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:42:20 AM

,AO 2022-14.

By legalizing political spam as a separate category and preventing

providers and tools from automatically filtering it, you will create a class

that will undermine all legitimate political e-mail and encourage spam

marketers to masquerade as political spam. Spam has enormous costs and

negative impacts on our internet and communications infrastructure. In

addition spam in end user mailboxes results in huge productivity losses for

American workers and businesses. Allowing a “hall-pass” to spam

producers targeting the USA also puts the USA at a disadvantage to other

countries.

Do not allow any spam producer, political or otherwise to have a free ticket

to avoid detection and set Americans further behind other countries. Our

digital future depends on us being a leader in the use of technology - not

the unguarded victim of it.

Gregor Bailar, Washington DC

Retired CIO, Capital One Financial; past-CIO NASDAQ Stock Market;

past CTO Citibank Global Corporate Bank; Past US critical infrastructures

advisory committee member.
From: Denton Yoder

To: AO

Subject: RE: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:04:34 AM

Please reject this proposal.

This would allow Google to use its own users as pawns in its fight to present itself as a benevolent overlord.

Please do not allow my inbox to become flooded with unwanted political propaganda.

Denton Yoder

Archbold OH
From: Jim Jacobi

To: AO

Subject: Re: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:58:41 AM

I would rather help a Nigerian prince retain his fortune than help a Republican or a Democrat

retain office.

DO NOT PERMIT GOOGLE TO MAKE THIS CHANGE! POLITICIANS SHOULD

NEVER BE EXEMPTED FROM THE RULES THAT APPLY TO EVERYONE ELSE!
From: Steve Tyukodi

To: AO

Subject: Re: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:09:29 AM

This is a horrible idea. I don't even live in your country but you can't tell that by my email

address. The last thing I want is to have my in box flooded by political emails from your

country because someone managed to get their hands on my email address through some kind

of data sale.

Please don't agree to this. Your political climate is very polarized and toxic right now. Don't

pour gasoline on a fire.
From: David Binnion

To: AO

Subject: Re: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:43:02 AM

Politicians have outsized ways of reaching the populace, spamming us

through gmail is not needed. Indeed if any kind action is needed, why not

try cracking down on donation requests that automatically suggest high

amounts with additional monthly donations.

David Binnion

Hillsboro, OH
From: Alex Gadd

To: AO

Subject: Re: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:29:12 AM

To whom it may concern,

Please do not allow or endorse Google to start letting unsolicited political emails through to my inbox from any

political party. This is a terrible idea that will only serve to create more work for individuals to manually re-assign

them to Spam. Why anyone would think this is a good idea for everyday citizens is beyond me. Please stop this.

Thank you for your consideration.

- Alex Gadd
From: Wayne Houseknecht

To: AO

Subject: RE: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 7:57:07 AM

Regarding AO 2022-14, no. Absolutely not.
From: Kevin Butler

To: AO

Subject: Re: Google request AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:15:00 AM

Please, please, please deny this intrusive request.
From:

To: AO

Subject: Rearding Google AO 2022-14, no, no, no!

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:54:51 AM

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
From: Rob Cork

To: AO

Subject: Ref: AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 4:29:48 AM

I do NOT want to receive political spam mail.

RC
From: Andrew Wood

To: AO

Subject: Reference AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:24:32 AM

Please reject this proposal outright, it is bad enough with the amount of spam passing through

the filters as it is without giving political spam a free pass.

Regards

Andrew Wood
From: Karl Hauser

To: AO

Subject: Reference# AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:48:26 AM

Dear FEC,

Just because one political party is abusing Gmail and thus being subject to spam, does not

mean that they should get to avoid the spam filter. That would simply encourage further abuse

Gmail, Gmail patrons, and damage the user experience further causing undue distress and

disinformation.

Thank you

Karl Hauser
From: David Rahman

To: AO

Subject: Regarding AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:30:30 AM

This is regarding reference number AO 2022-14

I am completely against the proposal. If it happens, I’ll stop using Gmail.

Dave
From: VSS

To: AO

Subject: Regarding AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:45:51 AM

Please, please, please do not allow political emails to go to our primary inboxes in our Gmail. 

This is a terrible idea. As an active member of the Democratic party, I can tell you that all of

the DNC emails go to spam. As they should. And there are lots of them. 

If any Republican tells you that their emails as sent to spam more often than a Democrat's,

they are trying to use the fairness doctrine against your sense of social decency. Stick to your

guns and trust your previous judgement!

Victoria S Strasnick MD
From: Rodney

To: AO

Subject: Regarding AO 2022-14.

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:51:54 AM

Please, NO.

Let me say it again, NO.

Wouldn't the plan let the government decide who is a political committee and hasn't the Trump

era put in doubt the governments ability to do this without bias (attempted election tampering,

inciting a riot)?

Let me say it again. No.

Rodney

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
From: Susan Foreman

To: AO

Subject: Regarding AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 5:39:45 AM

I oppose the suggestion that political email should be treated differently from any other unsolicited broadcast-style

email.

If current SPAM classification mechanisms should have am exemption for political content then what mechanism is

in place to provide the same capability for health related content, religious content, and product promotion content?

I would not advocate for any of the above implied exemptions. my point is that no single unsolicited broadcast-style

email should have special exceptions chosen by corporation.

__________________

Su Foreman
From: Kal Hassan

To: AO

Subject: Regarding Google AO-2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 9:08:10 AM

This request should be rejected! Google is trying to find another way to monetize their data.

Khalid Hassan

Sent from my mobile device

Kal Hassan
From: James Zarbock

To: AO

Subject: Regarding Proposal AO 2022-14

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 8:56:12 AM

AO 2022-14

If this is implemented this user will be leaving Gmail. Spam is spam and

detection should be applied equally and without any bias. This is so lazy

and disingenuous. Instead of removing bias from spam detection the plan is

to remove spam detection for "political" spam. Really? This sounds like an

SNL news joke.

-- 

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From: Jeff Kurzner

To: AO

Subject: Spam of political crap

Date: Sunday, July 17, 2022 6:45:44 AM

Please do not change Gmail. Political calls and emails should need labeled as spam and should

have no special place in terms off delivery
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From: Susan Grant >

Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 1:50 PM

To: AO

Subject: No spam 

To whom it may concern,

Please stop the process of allowing political spam from Google.

Thank you,

Best,

Susan Grant

Susan Grant

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From: Raven Deerwater < >

Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 10:38 PM

To: AO

Subject: gmail

Political emails should absolutely be subject to spam filters. Don't flood our inboxes with these emails, which often

distort reality.

Raven

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eserved=0
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From: PW Nyberg >

Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 12:20 AM

To: AO

Subject: Allowing political emails to bypass Gmail spam filters

This is a bad idea and leads to quite a slippery slope (Where is the line drawn regarding sender affiliation?).  Recipients

of political and other unsolicited emails can still view the message in their spam folders should they choose.

‐‐  

Paul Nyberg

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From: Michael Clark >

Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2022 7:16 PM

To: AO

Subject: AO 2022-14

Hello FEC,

Allowing a political party of any ideology to have mandated access to a user's inbox is rife for abuse. Can the political

party provide proof that the recipient has requested their email address be added to the party's distribution list? Proof

would need to be date and time, IP address, source (email, specific web site URL), And the proof of the confirmation that

the user clicked through to confirm the they wanted to receive the emails.  

Just because someone asks to be added to PartyX's mailing list, PartyX should not be allowed to share that address with

any of their affiliates. If it is shared, each affiliate must get confirmation from the user that they want to receive those

mailings as well. PartyX (and those downstream recipients of the user's email address) must be mandated to maintain

records of the confirmations for as long as PartyX is using the email address.  

The user must have easy, automated access to the history of their email address with PartyX. This will include at a

minimum: Who it has been shared with, how permission was confirmed, how many mailings have been sent to that

address, the date and time of those mailings.  

Please do not allow our email mailboxes to be a haven for political messaging. If a user marks a message as spam or

blocks it by some method at their disposal (a button in their email client, a blacklist of domains at the mail server they

manage, a procmail rule, a rule in their email client on their desktop computer, among many other options), it should

not be mandated that a message should bypass the user's preferences.

If anything, the FEC should be implementing teeth to endure that political parties are treating user's information with

respect and dignity. Thank you, Michael (Roanoke, VA)

‐‐ 

Michael Clark

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From: Don >

Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 4:51 PM

To: AO

Subject: Google Spam

To Whom It May Concern,

  

I see zero benefit for one group (politicians) to receive a special exemption regarding spam filtering. If this is approved it

will literally open the door to all kind of unwanted email. The lack of oversight will be enormous and lead to huge

amounts of unsolicited email. I already receive an inordinate amount of political garbage already. I certainly do NOT

want it to increase!

  

Respectfully,

Don Reed

  

  

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From: Ray < >

Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 6:37 AM

To: AO

Subject: Please do not allow politicians to spam us

I already get enough political and politician spam. Please don't give them your blessing to make it worse. Follow the

Constitution and help us retain Our Right to Privacy!

Thank you.

Ray Storla

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From:

Sent: Friday, July 15, 2022 2:24 PM

To: AO

Subject: PREVENT gmail from allowing political spam!

Powerful forces are screwing with electoral processes throughout the U.S.

The FEC absolutely must protect honesty and fairness!

  

A new danger is emerging.  Google might allow political spam on Gmail.  The FEC must PREVENT this!

  

Recent years’ evidence has shown that powerful business interests are strongly biased in favor of Republicans – often in

surreptitious ways that prevent voters from knowing who is funding and sending the propaganda.

  

The FEC absolutely must PREVENT political bias in Gmail.

  

Gmail’s attorneys have said what they want to do:  https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/aos/2022‐

14/202214R_1.pdf?link_id=4&can_id=1d662460c0abb8939c5044c82927552b&source=email‐submit‐a‐comment‐to‐the‐

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Please protect honest democracy from political spam.

  

Thank you!
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